Backplane interface adapter
US7236490B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 15, 2001 |
| Grant date | Jun 26, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 21, 2024 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S370/907
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A backplane interface adapter for a high-performance network switch. The backplane interface adapter receives narrow input cells carrying packets of data and outputs wide striped cells to a switching fabric. One traffic processing path through the backplane interface adapter includes deserializer receivers, a traffic sorter, wide cell generators, stripe send queues, a backplane transmit arbitrator, and serializer transmitters. Another traffic processing path through the backplane interface adapter includes deserialize receivers, a stripe interface, stripe receive synchronization queues, a controller, wide/narrow cell translator, destination queues, and serializer transmitters. An encoding scheme for packets of data carried in wide striped cells is provided.
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