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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Lonny Lambrecht, Byron, MN (US);
Michael S. Siegel, Raleigh, NC (US);
William S. Starke, Round Rock, TX (US);
Jeffrey A. Stuecheli, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An integrated circuit includes a transmitting circuit configured to be coupled to a physical serial interface having a bit width. The transmitting circuit is configured to transmit, via the physical serial interface, a frame including multiple aligned flits all of an equal fixed length that is an integer multiple of the bit width of the physical serial interface. The multiple flits include both a control flit specifying at least a command to be performed by a recipient of the command and a data flit providing data to be operated upon through performance of the command. The control flit includes a data protection code computed over the control flit and a data flit of a previously transmitted frame.