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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2023
Credo Technology Group Limited, Grand Cayman, KY;
Credo Technology Group Limited, Grand Cayman, KY;
Abstract
In-band communication methods and transceivers are provided to enable protocol-agnostic management channel. One illustrative in-band communications method includes: buffering an outbound data stream from a host-side receiver with a data stream buffer, the outbound data stream having a first bit rate; and providing a line-side data stream representing the outbound data stream with an additional word after every N words of the outbound data stream, the line-side data stream having a second bit rate derived from a fill level of the data stream buffer, the additional words including message words and idle words with adjacent message words potentially separated by a predetermined number of idle words.