Bing Sing Cheng

US Patent:

6704296, Mar 9, 2004

Filed:

Sep 16, 1996

Appl. No.:

08/743049

Inventors:

Ian Crayford - San Jose CA
Ramesh Sivakolundu - Fremont CA
Bing Cheng - Mountain View CA

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. - Austin TX

International Classification:

H04L 1256

US Classification:

370279, 370492, 370501

Abstract:

A media independent interface for interconnecting an integrated repeater front-end with one or more integrated interface devices, each having several physical layer devices for operation in conformance with IEEE 802. 3u. The media independent interface, in a repeater implementation, shares transmit and receive data channels, and provides for dedicated control signals, thereby multiplexing shared channels across all of the physical layer devices in the integrated interface device.