Multi-protocol i/o interconnect including a switching fabric
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsPrashant R. CHANDRA, Kevin C. KAHN
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Abstract
Described are embodiments of methods, apparatuses, and systems for multi-protocol tunneling across a multi-protocol I/O interconnect of computer apparatus. A multi-protocol I/O interconnect may include a switching fabric operatively coupled to a first protocol-specific controller and a second protocol-specific controller, and may be configured to simultaneously route packets of the first protocol to the first protocol-specific controller and packets of the second protocol to the second protocol-specific controller. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a first protocol-specific controller using a first protocol;
- a second protocol-specific controller using a second protocol that is different from the first protocol;
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- a multi-protocol interconnect including a switching fabric operatively coupled to the first protocol-specific controller and the second protocol-specific controller, and configured to simultaneously route packets of the first protocol to the first protocol-specific controller and packets of the second protocol to the second protocol-specific controller.
A method comprising:
- providing a first protocol-specific controller using a first protocol, and a second protocol-specific controller using a second protocol that is different from the first protocol;
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- simultaneously routing, by a multi-protocol interconnect, packets of the first protocol to the first protocol-specific controller and packets of the second protocol to the second protocol-specific controller.
A system comprising:
- an I/O complex including a first protocol-specific controller using a first protocol, a second protocol-specific controller using a second protocol that is different from the first protocol, and a multi-protocol interconnect including a switching fabric operatively coupled to the first protocol-specific controller and the second protocol-specific controller, and configured to simultaneously route packets of the first protocol to the first protocol-specific controller and packets of the second protocol to the second protocol-specific controller;
- a bus;
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- a display device operatively coupled to the I/O complex by the bus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.