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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2000
Dean S. Susnow, Portland, OR (US);
Richard D. Reohr, Jr., Hillsboro, OR (US);
Dean S. Susnow, Portland, OR (US);
Richard D. Reohr, Jr., Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An Elastic Buffer is provided to process data in a computer network and a write controller is provided to control memory storage operation of such an Elastic Buffer. The write controller may comprise a comparator mechanism which detects if link data from a source contains an IDLE signal; a Jabber counter mechanism which counts each cycle of a link clock in which an IDLE signal is not detected, and resets the count each time the IDLE signal is detected, and which asserts a DISABLE signal for a single link clock cycle if a count value reaches a programmed time-out value; and a logic gate which logically combines outputs from the comparator mechanism and the Jabber counter mechanism to generate a Write control signal for prohibiting a corresponding link data sequence from being stored in memory storage of the Elastic Buffer so as to prevent data overflow in the memory storage.