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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2013
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Koussalya Balasubramanian, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Chris Bullock, Round Rock, TX (US);
Chuong Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);
Yu Liu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An interface device receives at least one access command with at least one corresponding slave address on a bus. The interface device reads a configuration register, and responsive to the reading of the configuration register, the interface device selects one of a plurality of interface architecture configurations. The interface architecture configurations allow the interface device to operate as either a single physical interface entity or as multiple virtual interface entities. The interface device processes the access command according to the selected interface architecture configuration.