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Ashish A More

Anil Pothireddy

Brian Thomas Vanderpool

Scott Douglas Clark

Sudheendra Srivathsa

Jean Louis Calvignac

Saravanan Sethuraman

Christoph Raisch

Daniel Gene Eisenhauer

Jan-Bernd Themann

Vibhor K Srivastava

Programmable data recorders are provided in a network semiconductor chip to monitor and record all or portions of data from various interfaces, including the input and output interfaces of network links interfacing the chip. A data recorder is provided for each network link. The data recorders store captured data in storage arrays. Data may be compressed and associated with time stamps to conserve space in the storage arrays. A data recorder manager in the chip may start and stop the data recorders at approximately the same time. The programmable mode of the data recorders determines which interfaces are monitored, the portion of data captured, and the format of the data in the storage arrays.

Integrated link-based data recorder for semiconductor chip

Translating between a first communication protocol used by a first network component and a second communication protocol used by a second network, where translating includes: receiving, by a network engine adapter operating independently from the first and second network components, data packets from the first and second network components; and performing, by the network engine, a combined communication protocol based on the first communication protocol and the second communication protocol, including manipulating data packets of at least one of the first communication protocol or the second communication protocol, thereby offloading performance requirements for the combined communication protocol from the first and second network components.

Translation between a first communication protocol and a second communication protocol

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