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PROVIDING HIGH AVAILABILITY IN A PCI-EXPRESSTM LINK IN THE PRESENCE OF LANE FAULTS

  • US 20080178052A1
  • Filed: 03/27/2008
  • Published: 07/24/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A device, comprising:

  • a plurality of transmitters, each of the plurality of transmitters to originate a transmission of information on a lane of a multi-lane, two-way differential serial link;

    a plurality of receivers, each of the plurality of receivers to receive information from a lane of the link;

    a failure discovery unit to detect failures at any location on the link; and

    a link training unit to cause at least one lane of the link to be brought into an active state to continue the transmission of information when the failure on the link does not involve all link lanes.

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