Techniques to perform forward error correction for an electrical backplane
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsIlango S. Ganga, Luke Chang, Andrey Belogolovy, Ovchinnikov Andrei
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Abstract
A media independent interface and circuitry of a forward error correction (FEC) sublayer are provided, the circuitry of the FEC sublayer to perform forward error correction, the FEC sublayer coupled to a physical coding sublayer and a physical medium attachment (PMA) sublayer. The FEC sublayer include an encoder having a reverse gearbox, a compressor coupled to said reverse gearbox, a selector coupled to said compressor, a parity generator coupled to said compressor, a multiplexer coupled to said compressor, selector and said parity generator, a scrambler coupled to said multiplexer, and a pseudo-noise generator coupled to said scrambler.
Claims1
An apparatus, comprising:
- a media independent interface;
- and
- circuitry of a forward error correction (FEC) sublayer to perform forward error correction, the FEC sublayer coupled to a physical coding sublayer and a physical medium attachment (PMA) sublayer, the FEC sublayer comprising an encoder having:
- a reverse gearbox;
- a compressor coupled to said reverse gearbox;
- a selector coupled to said compressor;
- a parity generator coupled to said compressor;
- a multiplexer coupled to said compressor, selector and said parity generator;
- a scrambler coupled to said multiplexer;
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- a pseudo-noise generator coupled to said scrambler.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.