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US 8,046,510 B2Granted
Physical layer device having a SERDES pass through mode
AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorGary S. Huff
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Abstract
A physical layer device (PLD), comprising: a first serializer-deserializer (SERDES) device having a first parallel port; a second SERDES device having a second parallel port; a third SERDES device having a third parallel port; and a path selector being selectively configurable to provide either (i) a first signal path between the first and second parallel ports, or (ii) a second signal path between the first and third parallel ports.
Claims21
A path selector for a physical layer device, comprising:
- a first signal path configured and arranged to pass a first deserialized data signal and a first clock signal from a first serializer-deserializer (SERDES) device to a second SERDES device;
- and
- a second signal path configured and arranged to pass the first deserialized data signal and the first clock signal from the first SERDES device to a third SERDES device.
A method for data communication, comprising:
- (a) passing, by a first signal path, a first deserialized data signal and a first clock signal from a first serializer-deserializer (SERDES) device to a second SERDES device;
- and
- (b) passing, by a second signal path, the first deserialized data signal and the first clock signal from the first SERDES device to a third SERDES device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.