Marking synchronization positions in an elastic store
US8300748B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 6, 2007 |
| Grant date | Oct 30, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 26, 2030 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04J3/047
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and apparatus that allows egress pointer smoothing data by evaluating the average fill of an elastic store. For one embodiment of the invention, an elastic store implements a plurality of independent FIFOs, each FIFO having a write pointer and a read pointer, the write pointer including a marking pointer field and valid flag field. An incoming byte is received to a location within a traffic memory and the write pointer is used to instruct the traffic memory to indicate that the incoming bit has been received to the location. The valid flag field is set to indicate that the value at the location is currently valid.
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