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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2002
Filed:
May. 21, 1999
Michael Vengchong Lau, Cupertino, CA (US);
Charlie Sang, Fremont, CA (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for detecting runt data frames received by a network switch includes a plurality of queuing logics, corresponding to the number of ports contained in the network switch. The queuing logics transfer received data frames to a memory area of the network switch. The queuing logics also update the value of a column write pointer that indicates the number of data transfers required to store a prescribed portion of a particular received data frame in the memory area. A rules queue examines the column write pointer and determines if the particular data frame is a runt data frame. A runt indication signal is generated, after the particular data frame has been completely transferred to the memory area, in order to indicate if the particular data frame was a runt data frame.