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Anoop Kumar Upadhyay

Mahesh U Wagh

Venkatraman Iyer

Amit Kumar Srivastava

Zuoguo Wu

Gerald S Pasdast

Su Wei Lim

Mark S Birrittella

Ramnarayanan Ram Muthukaruppan

Lip Khoon Teh

Gaurav Goel

A configuration interface bus may be coupled to components of a physical layer (PHY) device. A configuration controller may be coupled with the configuration interface bus and may receive an input signal representing a power state of the PHY device. The configuration controller may further identify a set of instructions that correspond to the input signal and may transmit configuration data via the configuration interface bus to one or more of the components of the PHY device in response to an execution of the set of instructions. The operation of the one or more components of the PHY device may be based on the configuration data.

Controller to transmit data for components of a physical layer device

A system-on-a-chip, such as a logical PHY, may be divided into hard IP blocks with fixed routing, and soft IP blocks with flexible routing. Each hard IP block may provide a fixed number of lanes. Using p hard IP blocks, where each block provides n data lanes, h=n*p total hard IP data lanes are provided. Where the system design calls for k total data lanes, it is possible that k&#x2260;h, so that &#x250c;k/n&#x2510; hard IP blocks provide h=n*p available hard IP data lanes. In that case, h&#x2212;k lanes may be disabled. In cases where lane reversals occur, such as between hard IP and soft IP, bowtie routing may be avoided by the use of a multiplexer-like programmable switch within the soft IP.

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