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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2001
William P. Hann, Round Rock, TX (US);
Gerald S. Stellenberg, Austin, TX (US);
William P. Hann, Round Rock, TX (US);
Gerald S. Stellenberg, Austin, TX (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for communicating data is provided that includes communicating a first set of data from a first channel to a first serial-to-parallel converter and communicating a second set of data from a second channel to a second serial-to-parallel converter, the data sets are then converted to a parallel format. The converters are monitored to determine when one or more words of the respective data sets have accumulated in each of the converters. One or more of the words that have accumulated in each of the converters are then written to a selected one of first and second memory banks. A single scheduler monitors the memory banks to determine when the words that were written to each of the memory banks have formed one or more cells such that they may be read out of a selected one of the memory banks to be communicated to an output communications link.