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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2011
Ariel Hendel, Cupertino, CA (US);
Martin Lund, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Nicholas Ilyadis, Merrimack, NH (US);
Ariel Hendel, Cupertino, CA (US);
Martin Lund, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Nicholas Ilyadis, Merrimack, NH (US);
BROADCOM CORPORATION, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A universal network interface controller (UNIC) is provided for interfacing a host computer to a switch fabric, a packet network, or both. The UNIC includes ingress transmit logic designed to transmit switch fabric data in memory associated with the host computer to a switch fabric. The UNIC further includes egress receive logic designed to receive switch fabric data from the switch fabric to store the received switch fabric data in the host memory associated with the host computer. As an option, the ingress transmit logic may be further designed to transmit packet network data in memory associated with the host computer to a packet network, such as Ethernet, and the egress receive logic may be further designed to receive the packet network data from the packet network and to store the received switch fabric data and the received packet network data in the host memory associated with the host computer.