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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2018
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Xiaolin Lu, Plano, TX (US);
Robert Liang, Frisco, TX (US);
Mehul Soman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kumaran Vijayasankar, Allen, TX (US);
Ramanuja Vedantham, Allen, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
Disclosed embodiments include a network device having a split network stack that includes a physical (PHY) layer associated with first and second media access control (MAC) protocol sublayers, a processing device, and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processing device, cause the processing device to select a route through the split network stack that includes one of the first and second MAC protocol sublayers but not the other one of the first and second MAC protocol sublayers.