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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2004
Applicants:
Patrice Plante, Montreal, CA;
Carl Dietz Mccrosky, Saskatoon, CA;
Winston Ki-cheong Mok, Vancouver, CA;
Pierre Talbot, Pierrefonds, CA;
Inventors:
Patrice Plante, Montreal, CA;
Carl Dietz McCrosky, Saskatoon, CA;
Winston Ki-Cheong Mok, Vancouver, CA;
Pierre Talbot, Pierrefonds, CA;
Assignee:
PMC-Sierra, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/50 (2006.01); H04Q 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of time division multiplex switching reduces the implementation area by reducing the area required for both memory storage at each egress port and the multiplexing circuitry required. Ingress and egress processors are implemented to control the storage and selection of data grains to allow for the reduction in the memory and multiplexer areas.