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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2007
Applicants:
A. Scott Hollums, Duluth, GA (US);
Niki R. Pantelias, Duluth, GA (US);
David A. Ferguson, Atlanta, GA (US);
Inventors:
A. Scott Hollums, Duluth, GA (US);
Niki R. Pantelias, Duluth, GA (US);
David A. Ferguson, Atlanta, GA (US);
Assignee:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04J 3/14 (2006.01); G08C 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method are presented for changing physical layer (PHY) parameters in a PHY device of a communications system. New parameters are written to a first-in first-out queue in a serial interface, while the scheduled time for the changeover is written to a control register in the serial interface. When the time for the changeover occurs, the parameters are written to the PHY device via a port of the serial interface.