3com Corporation

Edward Turner

Bryan J Donoghue

David J Law

Alan R Poulter

Richard N Bayfield

Lee C Harrison

Tin Lam

Mark A Bobbitt

Christopher Alan Walker

Nicholas Mark Stapleton

Christopher Byham

Victoria A Griffiths

Benjamin J O Kerr

David Wright

An interface between a wireless node and a network node includes an encapsulator for temporarily converting data frames into Ethernet frames for the link between the two nodes and de-encapsulating the Ethernet frames before the data is processed at the network node.

Interface system for wireless node and network node

A data processor and storage system which comprises a data processor, a cache memory and a main memory is arranged so that the addressing of the main memory produces a multiplicity of spaced aliases, the multiplicity being greater than the set-associativity of the cache memory. The cache memory may be a multiple way set associative cache memory with the system including a round robin allocator for controlling the storing of successive data items in the different ways of the set associative cache. The cache may also be a direct mapped cache having single way set-associativity so that the round robin allocator is not required. The system may also include a direct memory access (DMA) device for copying data items into the memory. The memory may be a buffer memory which is divided into a plurality of packet buffers.

Date processor and storage system including a set associative cache with memory aliasing

A stackable network unit comprises a 'down' port and an 'up' port, an arbitration path for data packets from the down port to the up port, a repeat path for data packets from the up port to the down port, a link detector for detecting tile absence of another operative unit connected to the down port to cause data packets on the return pat to bypass the down port and proceed on the arbitration path and for detecting the absence of another operative unit connected to the up port to cause data packets on the arbitration path to bypass the up port and proceed on the repeat path.

Method and apparatus for configuration of stackable units in packet-based communications systems

Printed circuit board

A printed circuit board which has in a first edge a first notch and a second notch a first predetermined distance apart and along said first edge between said first and second notches a plurality of terminal pads in a broadside array, the first edge including a third notch spaced from the second notch and disposed a second predetermined distance, greater than the first predetermined distance, from said first notch, the board having along and adjacent the first edge between the second and third notches a second plurality of terminal pads arranged in a respective broadside array.

Printed circuit board having dual purpose profile

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Maidenhead, United Kingdom

Edward Turner