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Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7477611 |
Method and apparatus for performing wire speed auto-negotiation |
January 13, 2009 |
| Auto-negotiation with a communication partner includes downgrading a set of advertised communications capabilities, e.g., IEEE 802.3 capabilities, when a link with the communication partners fails to support an advertised communications capability, e.g., wire-speed. One operation inc |
| 7334068 |
Physical layer device having a SERDES pass through mode |
February 19, 2008 |
| A physical layer device (PLD), comprising: a first serializer-deserializer (SERDES) device having a first parallel port; a second SERDES device having a second parallel port; a third SERDES device having a third parallel port; and a path selector being selectively configurable to pro |
| 7283481 |
Auto detection of copper and fiber mode |
October 16, 2007 |
| Methods and systems for operating a physical layer device ("PHY") in an Ethernet network include methods and systems for detecting active link partners and for selecting a mode of operation based on detected active link partners. The PHY monitors fiber link media and copper link media |
| 7203174 |
Auto detection of SGMII and GBIC modes |
April 10, 2007 |
| An Ethernet communication system device that switches between SGMII and GBIC modes of operation, without software intervention. For example, a physical layer device ("PHY") for an Ethernet communication system that switches between SGMII and GBIC modes of operation, without software |
| 7068609 |
Method and apparatus for performing wire speed auto-negotiation |
June 27, 2006 |
| Auto-negotiation with a communication partner includes downgrading a set of advertised communications capabilities, e.g., IEEE 802.3 capabilities, when a link with the communication partners fails to support an advertised communications capability, e.g., wire-speed. One operation inc |
