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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2023
Silicon Laboratories Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Hendricus De Ruijter, Rocklin, CA (US);
Terry Dickey, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Wentao Li, Mountain House, CA (US);
Bryan Murawski, Belmont, MA (US);
Marius Munder, Unna, DE;
Silicon Laboratories Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A technique for adding a new information rate to a legacy physical interface of a communications system includes using a rate switch packet including a distinct rate select start-of-frame delimiter that indicates a newly defined physical interface packet. The rate switch packet uses the same modulation scheme as a base rate packet (e.g., a packet using an information rate defined by a standard communications protocol) and the same preamble pattern as the base rate packet. The preamble length of the rate switch packet can be the same as or different from the preamble length of the base rate packet. An embodiment uses antenna diversity by selecting the antenna in the rate switch packet and using the selected antenna to receive an adjusted rate packet. Additional rate switch start-of-frame delimiters can be used to indicate more than one adjusted rate packet, e.g., to support multiple adjusted information rates.