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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2011
Chi-shun Weng, Hsinchu County, TW;
Liang-wei Huang, Hsinchu City, TW;
Ming-feng Hsu, Taipei City, TW;
Yuan-jih Chu, Hsinchu City, TW;
Chi-Shun Weng, Hsinchu County, TW;
Liang-Wei Huang, Hsinchu City, TW;
Ming-Feng Hsu, Taipei City, TW;
Yuan-Jih Chu, Hsinchu City, TW;
Realtek Semiconductor Corp., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A master/slave decision device applied to a first network device is provided, where the first network device is coupled to a second network device, and the master/slave decision device includes a seed distance detection unit and a decision unit. The seed distance decision unit is utilized for detecting a seed distance between a first seed utilized in a first scrambler of the first network device and a second seed utilized in a second scrambler of the second network device. The decision unit is coupled to the seed distance detecting unit, and is utilized for determining the first network device to be a master device or a slave device according to the seed distance.