Configurable multi-mode media independent interface
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorHongchun Yu
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Abstract
A configurable media independent interface in an integrated circuit device includes a first plurality of channels and a second plurality of channels, wherein each channel of the first and second pluralities includes a transmit path. The interface also includes a first serializer configurable to serialize transmit data for the first and second pluralities of channels in a first mode and to serialize transmit data for the first plurality of channels in a second mode, and a second serializer configurable to be disabled in the first mode and to serialize data for the second plurality of channels in the second mode.
Claims20
A configurable media independent interface in an integrated circuit device, comprising:
- a first plurality of channels, wherein each channel of the first plurality comprises a transmit path;
- a second plurality of channels, wherein each channel of the second plurality comprises a transmit path;
- a first serializer configurable to serialize transmit data for the first and second pluralities of channels in a first mode and to serialize transmit data for the first plurality of channels in a second mode;
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- a second serializer configurable to be disabled in the first mode and to serialize transmit data for the second plurality of channels in the second mode, wherein the first mode corresponds to a first protocol, and the second mode corresponds to a second protocol.
A method of operating a configurable media independent interface in an integrated circuit device, the method comprising configuring the media independent interface in one of a plurality of modes including a first mode and a second mode, wherein:
- in the first mode, transmit data for a first plurality of channels and a second plurality of channels are multiplexed together and serialized into a serialized output;
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- in the second mode, transmit data for the first plurality of channels are multiplexed together and serialized into a first serialized output, and transmit data for the second plurality of channels are multiplexed together and serialized into a second serialized output, wherein the first mode corresponds to a first protocol, and the second mode corresponds to a second protocol.
A configurable media independent interface in an integrated circuit device, comprising:
- means for multiplexing together transmit data for a first plurality of channels and a second plurality of channels in a first mode, and for separately multiplexing transmit data for the first plurality of channels and multiplexing transmit data for the second plurality of channels in a second mode;
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- means for serializing the multiplexed transmit data for the first and second pluralities of channels into a serialized output in the first mode, for serializing the multiplexed transmit data for the first plurality of channels into a first serialized output in the second mode, and for serializing the multiplexed transmit data into a second serialized output in the second mode, wherein the first mode corresponds to a first protocol, and the second mode corresponds to a second protocol.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.