Method and apparatus for operating a transceiver in different data rates
CAFCFirst Claim
1. A transceiver connected to a data source and a data receiver, comprising:
- an input port for accepting a control signal having a first and a second state;
a serializer designed to operate at a first data rate; and
a first interface that receives a first set of data from the data source at a second data rate and delivers a second set of data to the serializer at the first data rate, the second data rate being lower than the first data rate when the control signal is at the first state and the second rate being same as the first data rate when the control signal is at the second state.
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Abstract
A transceiver can be used to send and receive data at a lower data rate than the data rate its SERDES is designed to operate. It contains a transmitter interface that receives a first set of data at a lower data rate and delivers a second set of data to the SERDES at a higher data rate. The transceiver also contains a receiver interface that receives a third set of data from the SERDES at the higher data rate and delivers a fourth set of data at the lower data rate. To reduce the minimum transmission serial data rate, one embodiment of the present invention derives a half-speed clock for the transmitter interface. Using the half-speed clock, the transmitter interface supplies data to be transmitted at half the normal rate with respect to a reference clock. As a result, the data rate is reduced. The opposite operation is used for the receiver interface.
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1. A transceiver connected to a data source and a data receiver, comprising:
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an input port for accepting a control signal having a first and a second state; a serializer designed to operate at a first data rate; and a first interface that receives a first set of data from the data source at a second data rate and delivers a second set of data to the serializer at the first data rate, the second data rate being lower than the first data rate when the control signal is at the first state and the second rate being same as the first data rate when the control signal is at the second state. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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