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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2014
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Debendra Das Sharma, Saratoga, CA (US);
Daniel S. Froelich, Portland, OR (US);
Venkatraman Iyer, Austin, TX (US);
Michelle C. Jen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rahul R. Shah, Marlborough, MA (US);
Eric M. Lee, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus that includes a physical interface for a serial interconnect is provided. The physical interface includes a buffer that is selectable to function as a drift buffer or an elastic buffer by a voltage level on a buffer control line. The physical interface also includes encoding logic that can be enabled or disabled by a voltage level on a logic control line. Further, the physical interface also includes and an ordered set generator that can be enabled or disabled by a voltage level on a communications control line.