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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2000
David Masao Atoji, Apex, NC (US);
David Masao Atoji, Apex, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In a network node, a method and apparatus to assemble fixed cell length cells resulting from the segmenting of variable length frames into cells. The hardware implementations of the preferred embodiments of the invention comprise a finite state machine which handles three processes at the same time, one for fetching the frame data stored in a storage unit, the data store, one for moving data from the frame data and control block data to the cell and one for outputting cell data. The other components are a counter for the pointing to the frame and a multiplexer for selecting the correct data to form the cell.