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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1997
Ian Lam, Daly City, CA (US);
Peter Ka-Fai Chow, San Jose, CA (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An integrated multiport switch having an interface connected between the MAC of each port and a MIB report bus, whereby MIB reports for the plurality of switch ports are transmitted individually to a switch MIB engine, fed by the MIB report bus, on a time shared basis. The interface prioritizes transmission of the MIB reports to the MIB engine in accordance with the transmission characteristics associated with the respective ports. A FIFO storage buffer in interface temporarily holds MIB report data, received from lower priority ports on a time-slot allotted sequence synchronized to a clock signal, during periods in which MIB report data from higher priority ports are given preference for output to the MIB report bus.