Credo Technology Group Limited

Ashwin Upadhya

Haoli Qian

Fang Cai

Calvin Xiong Fang

In-band communication methods and transceivers are provided to enable protocol-agnostic management channel. One illustrative in-band communications method includes: buffering an outbound data stream from a host-side receiver with a data stream buffer, the outbound data stream having a first bit rate; and providing a line-side data stream representing the outbound data stream with an additional word after every N words of the outbound data stream, the line-side data stream having a second bit rate derived from a fill level of the data stream buffer, the additional words including message words and idle words with adjacent message words potentially separated by a predetermined number of idle words.

SerDes method and device having a protocol-agnostic in-band management channel

An illustrative embodiment of a disclosed physical layer interface device includes: a first transmitter and a first receiver for a primary data path; a second transmitter and a second receiver for a secondary data path; a third transmitter and a third receiver for a non-redundant data path; and a multiplexer. The third receiver is coupled to provide a data stream received from the non-redundant data path concurrently to the first and second transmitters, and the multiplexer provides the third transmitter with a selected one of the data stream received via the primary data path and the data stream received via the secondary data path. Disclosed network switch embodiments employ the illustrative physical layer interface to provide internal or external data path redundancy for traffic handled by the network switch.

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Fremont, CA, United States of America

Ashwin Upadhya