Lsi Corporation

Agere Systems Inc.

Thomas Truman

Kameran Azadet

Meng-Lin Yu

Leilei Song

Kamran Azadet

An integrated controller is provided for controlling communications with a plurality of peripheral devices. The integrated controller includes a bus interface for processing communications with a processor; a switch for routing communications between the processor and one or more of the peripheral devices; and a plurality of controllers, where each of the controllers provide an interface to at least one peripheral device. The controllers include at least one PHY controller for a corresponding peripheral device that provides an electrical interface to a connection, such as a network connection. The controllers also include at least one MAC controller that stores and forwards packets to and from a network connection.

Universal controller for peripheral devices in a computing system

A data structure, method and protocol wherein synchronization data indicative of a data frame delineation point is inserted within an inter-packet gap (IPG) proximate a data frame during transmission. Optionally, a cyclical redundancy check (CRC) length indicative data, pointer data, and other data is inserted within the IPG to further insure appropriate delineation of data frames within a data stream.

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Red Bank, NJ, United States of America

Thomas Truman