Flexible high speed forward error correction (FEC) physical medium attachment (PMA) and physical coding sublayer (PCS) connection system
US9235540B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 1, 2013 |
| Grant date | Jan 12, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 22, 2034 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L27/00
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Systems, methods, apparatus, and techniques relating to a transmitter interface are disclosed. A soft-IP transmitter interface includes a Reed-Solomon encoder operating according to any one of multiple bus width and bandwidth parameter pairs, and a gearbox module that includes multiple gearboxes. The multiple gearboxes receive input data at a bus width and clock rate parameter pair specified by the soft-IP transmitter interface and convert the input data into output data according to a number of physical lanes and bandwidth parameter pair specified by a physical medium attachment (PMA) standard.
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