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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2008
Paul A. Baker, Los Altos, CA (US);
Michael W. Murphy, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Eric Werner Anderson, Cupertino, CA (US);
Colin Whitby-strevens, Ben Lomond, CA (US);
David Ferguson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Keith Diefendorff, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Ron Hochsprung, Los Gatos, CA (US);
William Cornelius, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Paul A. Baker, Los Altos, CA (US);
Michael W. Murphy, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Eric Werner Anderson, Cupertino, CA (US);
Colin Whitby-Strevens, Ben Lomond, CA (US);
David Ferguson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Keith Diefendorff, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Ron Hochsprung, Los Gatos, CA (US);
William Cornelius, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A high-speed optical interface for connecting computers to external I/O devices allows a number of native I/O formats to be encapsulated into PCIe Vendor Defined Messages ('VDMs') for transfer over a single physical medium, preferably optical, and is thus referred to as the converged I/O ('CIO') interface. Standard PCIe bridges are modified to support peer-to-peer communications, allowing greater exploitation of the capabilities of PCIe.