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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2006
Michael C. St. Germain, Medford, MA (US);
Kimo Y. F. Tam, Lincoln, MA (US);
Michael C. St. Germain, Medford, MA (US);
Kimo Y. F. Tam, Lincoln, MA (US);
Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);
Abstract
An impedance matched lane reversal switching system including first and second transceiver pairs, each of the pairs including a transmitter connected to a receiver, the output of the transmitter connected to the input of the receiver and to a node, the node of each pair interconnected with a transmission line and a switching circuit for selectively enabling one of the transmitters of one of the transceiver pairs and disabling the other and selectively utilizing one of the receivers of the other of the transceiver pairs and not the other to selectively reverse an egress side and an ingress side of the lane.