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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2001
Chi-sheng Chang, San Jose, CA (US);
Chin-wei Liang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chi-Sheng Chang, San Jose, CA (US);
Chin-Wei Liang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A networking interface device for coupling a system host having one of a plurality configurations to a network medium. The device having a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) interface for coupling the interface device to a system host configured with a PCI based system bus interface; a medium independent interface (MII) for coupling the interface device to a system host configured with a media access controller (MAC) based system bus interface; and a control block for determining whether the interface device is operably coupled to a system host having a PCI based system bus interface or a MAC based system bus interface.