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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2007
Viswa Nath Sharma, San Ramon, CA (US);
Barton W. Stuck, Westport, CT (US);
Ching-tai HU, Fremont, CA (US);
Yi-chang Chou, Fremont, CA (US);
William Chu, Elmsford, NY (US);
Viswa Nath Sharma, San Ramon, CA (US);
Barton W. Stuck, Westport, CT (US);
Ching-Tai Hu, Fremont, CA (US);
Yi-chang Chou, Fremont, CA (US);
William Chu, Elmsford, NY (US);
Psimast, Inc, San Ramon, CA (US);
Abstract
A computing and communication architecture utilizes a serial protocol based switched fabric among circuit cards housed in packaging arrangement. In one embodiment, each circuit card connected to the serial protocol based switched fabric in the packaging arrangement is provided with a protocol processor that enables all of the circuit cards to efficiently provide packet-based serial self-clocked communications at line speed. As a result, it is not necessary to arrange the circuit cards in a hierarchical manner in order to address the problems of switch blocking and related traffic congestion issues that would otherwise limit the implementation of the serial protocol based backplane arrangement for housing circuit cards.