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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2008
Ting Yun Kao, Cupertino, CA (US);
Robert Yin, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Hamish T. Fallside, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Richard P. Burnley, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nicholas Mckay, Edinburgh, GB;
Martin B. Rhodes, Peebles, GB;
Douglas M. Grant, Gorebridge, GB;
Stuart A. Nisbet, Edinburgh, GB;
Gareth D. Edwards, Edinburgh, GB;
Allan W. Fyfe, Edinburgh, GB;
Ting Yun Kao, Cupertino, CA (US);
Robert Yin, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Hamish T. Fallside, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Richard P. Burnley, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nicholas McKay, Edinburgh, GB;
Martin B. Rhodes, Peebles, GB;
Douglas M. Grant, Gorebridge, GB;
Stuart A. Nisbet, Edinburgh, GB;
Gareth D. Edwards, Edinburgh, GB;
Allan W. Fyfe, Edinburgh, GB;
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A media access system in an integrated circuit device having programmable resources for interfacing to a network. The media access system has at least one embedded media access controller configured to provide access to and from the network via a physical layer interface, programmable resources coupled to the embedded controller via a client interface, tie-off pin inputs coupled to the embedded controller for receiving a configuration vector for configuring the embedded controller without having to use a microprocessor for such configuration with the client interface being for communication between the embedded controller and the programmable resources for access to and from the network, and the embedded controller including a multi-mode interface coupled to the client interface for coupling to the programmable resources, the multi-mode interface including a plurality of Media Independent Interface modes, the multi-mode interface configured to be coupled to the physical layer interface.