Daryl K Coleman

US Patent:

20050021753, Jan 27, 2005

Filed:

Sep 4, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/655463

Inventors:

Daryl Coleman - Plano TX, US

International Classification:

G06F013/00
G06F015/173

US Classification:

709225000, 710104000

Abstract:

System and method for implementing RMII Ethernet reset of a slave card is described. In one embodiment, the invention comprises a method of resetting a slave card electrically connected to an administrative processor of a system via a Reduced Media Independent Interface (“RMII”) Ethernet physical layer device (“PHY”). The method comprises, responsive to detection of a start of frame indicator (“SFI”), activating a shift register; shifting reset signal data into the shift register; comparing the reset signal data shifted into the shift register with compare data; and responsive to the reset signal data being the same as the compare data, resetting the slave card.