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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2023
Applicant:
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ian Kenneth Coolidge, San Diego, CA (US);
Shahin Valoth, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/423 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides for an architecture for a multi-interface card environment, such as a server that includes multiple network interface cards (NICs) or peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) cards. The architecture includes a passive optical splitter coupled between a leader clock and the multiple interface cards or PCIes. The optical splitter can be used to distribute clock time from the leader clock to the interface cards. The architecture provides for distribution of timing in a scalable manner in the multi-NIC environments for cloud deployments.