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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2016
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, Sunnyvalr, CA (US);
Francesco Caggioni, Winchester, MA (US);
Dimitrios Giannakopoulos, Andover, MA (US);
MACOM Connectivity Solutions, LLC, Lowell, MA (US);
Abstract
System and method of frame alignment at a receiver with power optimization mechanisms. A framer at the receiver is configured to process data streams from multiple physical lanes and/or multiple channels serially. The receiver may include multiple framers that process different sets of data streams in parallel. A framer may enter a power reduction mode after all the channels associated therewith have achieved frame alignment. The framer can be restarted to perform frame alignment processes on a particular channel responsive to an indication that the channel transitions to an out-of-frame state. The 'out-of-frame' indication may be generated by a forward error correction (FEC) decoder when it detects an excessive number of uncorrectable errors in the channel.