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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2020
Applicant:
Microchip Technology Incorporated, Chandler, AZ (US);
Inventors:
William T. Baggett, Austin, TX (US);
Venkatraman Iyer, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Microchip Technology Incorporated, Chandler, AZ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3234 (2019.01); G06F 13/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3234 (2013.01); G06F 13/20 (2013.01); G06F 2213/40 (2013.01);
Abstract
Described is an architecture for a physical layer device useable with single pair Ethernet in a multidrop bus topology that may operate in a sleep mode and control other devices in network segment to operate in a sleep mode. Some embodiments of the physical layer device may support partial networking in a multidrop network, and mixed networks including the same.