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Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2025

Filed:

Apr. 15, 2021
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Swadesh Choudhary, Mountain View, CA (US);

Mahesh Wagh, Portland, OR (US);

Debendra Das Sharma, Saratoga, CA (US);

Assignee:

INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/38 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/382 (2013.01); G06F 11/1048 (2013.01); G06F 13/4018 (2013.01); G06F 13/4059 (2013.01); G06F 13/4068 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a first link layer circuit to perform link layer functionality for a first communication protocol; and a logical physical (logPHY) circuit coupled to the first link layer circuit via a logical PHY interface (LPIF) link, the logPHY circuit to communicate with the first link layer circuit in a flit mode in which the first information is communicated in a fixed width size and to communicate with another link layer circuit in a non-flit mode. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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