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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2013
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
William Bliss, Granite Canyon, WY (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
An asymmetric PHY pair for communicating over a point-to-point link is disclosed. The PHY pair is asymmetric in that the signal processing power used by one of the PHYs to communicate a unit of data over the link is made to be less than that of the other PHY. This asymmetry is accomplished not merely by reducing the signal processing power of one of the PHYs at the expense of the rate at which symbols can be communicated over the link, but by transferring the signal processing power from one of the PHYs to the other PHY so that the symbol rate can be substantially maintained as compared to the symbol rate of a symmetric PHY pair. The asymmetric PHY pair can be advantageously implemented in many different types of communication systems (i.e., in communication systems where one end is more congested and/or crowded than the other end).