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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2013
Applicant:
Pmc-sierra Us, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Gregory Arthur Tabor, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Larrie Simon Carr, Kelowna, CA;
Richard David Sodke, Burnaby, CA;
Assignee:
PMC-Sierra US, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/20 (2006.01); G06F 13/14 (2006.01); G06F 13/36 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/4022 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided is an apparatus and method for enabling interoperability between a serial attached small computer system interface (SAS) protocol with a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) protocol. A SAS-PCIe bridge includes a SAS component configured to communicate with a SAS device in a SAS domain and a PCIe component configured to communicate with a PCIe switch in a PCIe domain. The SAS component and the PCIe component are configured to convert data between the SAS protocol and the PCIe protocol.