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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 14, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Denis A. Smetana, Manassas, VA (US);
Brian D. Holden, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Imran N. Chaudhri, North Potomac, MD (US);
Edward Lennox, Saratoga, CA (US);
Richard A. Smedley, Columbia, MD (US);
Assignee:
PMC-Sierra, Inc., , CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/256 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/256 ;
Abstract
A segmentation and reassembly processor ( ) is disclosed for use in interfacing a group of time-division multiplexed lines ( ) to a cell-based communication environment ( ). The SAR uses a bit-table calendar ( ) to schedule cells to be sent to the cell-based network. A cell service decision circuit ( ) reads frame events from a frame advanced FIFO ( ) and signals a cell builder ( ) to assemble cells of data from a frame buffer ( ) for transmission to a cell based output ( ).