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Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025

Filed:

Jan. 23, 2024
Applicant:

Synopsys, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventor:
Assignee:

Synopsys, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 69/14 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/0045 (2013.01); H04L 1/0057 (2013.01); H04L 69/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for reducing a number of comparators used during an alignment marker (AM) search are presented. A method includes enabling communication between a physical coding sublayer (PCS) having a PCS transmit side and a PCS receive side with a physical medium attachment (PMA) sublayer, at a first end, using multiple PCS lanes that receives data blocks from the multiple PCS lanes, wherein a PCS lane includes an alignment marker (AM) on the PCS transmit side and performs an AM search using a first AM search stage circuit, wherein, in the first AM search stage circuit, all of the multiple PCS lanes are consecutively searched with read components on the PCS receive side until an AM is detected in all of the multiple PCS lanes.


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