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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2018
Microsemi Storage Solutions, Inc., Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Brian Branscomb, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Lars Ellegaard, Copenhagen, DK;
Kristian Ehlers, Skovlunde, DK;
Thomas Joergensen, Soeborg, DK;
Microsemi Storage Solutions, Inc., Chandler, AZ (US);
Abstract
A PHY constituted of: a clock arranged to generate a time signal indicative of the current time; and an egress stamp functionality arranged to: receive a data packet on the egress side, extract data from a predetermined section of the received data packet, and responsive to the extracted data, perform one of a plurality of predetermined timestamp operations, the plurality of predetermined timestamp operations comprising: generating a timestamp signal responsive to the generated time signal; not generating a timestamp signal; or modifying a timestamp written in the received data packet.