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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
May. 09, 2008
Paul Langner, Fremont, CA (US);
Hossein Sederat, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Langner, Fremont, CA (US);
Hossein Sederat, San Jose, CA (US);
Aquantia Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A communications system and method for switching data rates while maintaining convergence of adaptive components. The data rates can switch between, for example, 10G, 1G, 100M and the like. The adaptive components can include, for example, equalizers, cross-talk filters (e.g., NEXT filters; FEXT filters), transmission drivers, low density parity checks and echo cancellers. The data rate is reduced by maintaining the same symbol rate over a channel, while reducing the number of channels, reducing the symbol alphabet, and zero-filling unused bits in the transmission frame. In addition, full duplex communication can be changed to simplex communication. A usage rotation (e.g., a round robin rotation) switches among different twisted pairs of a communication channel to maintain convergence of the adaptive components. Inactive components can be powered down, or the power can be reduced, in order to reduce the amount of power required for the communications system.