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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2011
Applicants:
Roger N. Switzer, Vancouver, WA (US);
Paul J. Zeman, Boise, ID (US);
Inventors:
Roger N. Switzer, Vancouver, WA (US);
Paul J. Zeman, Boise, ID (US);
Assignee:
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/38 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/385 (2013.01); G06F 13/28 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure describes a serial control channel processor. In some aspects, a time-based instruction corresponding to a command is executed and a signaling event based on the time-based instruction is generated at a communication port. In other aspects a signal containing data is received at a communication port and a time-based instruction is executed to read data of the received signal.