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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2012
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Ali Ghiasi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, apparatuses and methods are disclosed for using elastic buffers in fiber channel systems over twisted pair links. One such system includes a fiber channel host device and another fiber channel host device communicatively coupled to the fiber channel device over a twisted pair link. The system also includes a slave physical layer (PHY) circuit residing in the fiber channel host device and a master PHY circuit residing in the another fiber channel host device. The master PHY circuit is operable to transmit, using a reference clock, data from a transmit elastic buffer. The slave PHY circuit is operable to receive the data transmitted by the master PHY circuit and to store the received data using a derived clock recovered from the received data.