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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2010
Filed:
May. 21, 2004
Naveen Cherukuri, San Jose, CA (US);
Sanjay Dabral, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David S. Dunning, Portland, OR (US);
Tim Frodsham, Portland, OR (US);
Theodore Z. Schoenborn, Portland, OR (US);
Rahul R. Shah, Marlborough, MA (US);
Maurice B. Steinman, Marlborough, MA (US);
Naveen Cherukuri, San Jose, CA (US);
Sanjay Dabral, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David S. Dunning, Portland, OR (US);
Tim Frodsham, Portland, OR (US);
Theodore Z. Schoenborn, Portland, OR (US);
Rahul R. Shah, Marlborough, MA (US);
Maurice B. Steinman, Marlborough, MA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A technique is described by which two link agents with ports coupled together using a point-to-point interconnect in a system exchange their link width support capabilities and negotiate a link width that is mutually agreeable. The interconnect between each pair of agents comprises a pair of uni-directional links having multiple electrical wires, or lanes, where one link is used by a first agent to transmit data to a second agent and another link is used by the second agent to transmit data to the first agent.