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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2013
Applicant:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Inventors:
Wael William Diab, San Francisco, CA (US);
William Calvin Woodruff, Pleasonton, CA (US);
Assignee:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0896 (2013.01); H04L 41/0816 (2013.01); H04L 43/50 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for next generation BASE-T communication. Next generation BASE-T devices designed for communication over twisted pair Ethernet cabling are configurable based on the characteristics of the communication channel. In discovering the characteristics of the communication channel, the physical layer device (PHY) can select one of a plurality of operating modes that can support a given data transmission rate (e.g., 10 Gbit/s, 40 Gbit/s, 100 Gbit/s, 400 Gbit/s, etc.).