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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2008
Applicant:
Gary S. Huff, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Inventor:
Gary S. Huff, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Assignee:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/12 (2006.01); G06F 1/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A physical layer device (PLD), comprising: a first serializer-deserializer (SERDES) device having a first parallel port; a second SERDES device having a second parallel port; a third SERDES device having a third parallel port; and a path selector being selectively configurable to provide either (i) a first signal path between the first and second parallel ports, or (ii) a second signal path between the first and third parallel ports.