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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2010
Eitan Medina, Ramat Hasharon, IL;
Yaniv Kopelman, Holon, IL;
Eitan Medina, Ramat Hasharon, IL;
Yaniv Kopelman, Holon, IL;
Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L) Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Abstract
A network device includes a multi-port media access controller (MAC) device that comprises a plurality of MAC devices. Some of the MAC devices output respective data streams at different speeds. A plurality of speed translators translates the speeds of the respective data streams to be greater than or equal to a highest output speed of the plurality of MAC devices and generates parallel speed translated data streams. A multiplexer multiplexes the parallel speed translated data streams to generate a multiplexed data stream corresponding to one of the plurality of MAC devices with the highest output speed defined by the parallel speed translated data streams. A first serializer and deserializer receives the multiplexed data stream that is encoded at a physical coding sublayer and serially transmits the multiplexed data stream to a multi-port physical layer device.