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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2016
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Peter Yan, Frisco, TX (US);
Alex Elisa Chandra, Plano, TX (US);
Lee Dobson McFearin, Plano, TX (US);
Fang Yu, San Jose, CA (US);
Alan Gatherer, Richardson, TX (US);
FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is method for operating an interposer that includes assigning a binary port weight to a plurality of input ports of the interposer. The sum of all of the port weights is less than or equal to a number of traversals available to the interposer in a cycle. A traversal counter is set zero at the beginning of each cycle. The output of the traversal counter is a binary number of m bits. A mask is generated when a bit of the traversal counter transitions from a zero to a one. The mask is generated having the m−k+1 bit of the mask equal to one and all other bits of the mask equal to zero. Data is transmitted from each port when both the binary port weight and the mask have a one in the same bit position.