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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2015
Marvell World Trade Ltd., St. Michael, BB;
Nafea Bishara, San Jose, CA (US);
William Lo, Cupertino, CA (US);
Marvell World Trade Ltd., St. Michael, BB;
Abstract
A physical-layer circuit including a memory, a physical-layer device and a control circuit. The memory receives data from a media access controller (MAC) at a first rate. The MAC is separate from the physical-layer circuit. The physical-layer device receives the data from the memory and transmits the data from the physical-layer circuit to a peer device. The physical-layer device transfers the data from the memory to the peer device at a second rate. An amount of data stored in the memory is based on a difference between the first and second rates. The second rate is less than the first rate. The control circuit is connected between the memory and the physical layer device. The control circuit monitors the amount of the data stored in the memory and, based on the amount of the data stored in the memory, transmits a frame to the MAC to decrease the first rate.