| SARANCE TECHNOLOGIES INC. Patent applications |
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| 20120066531 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVE POWER CONTROL IN A MULTI-LANE COMMUNICATION CHANNEL - An apparatus consisting of a digital communication channel comprised of a multiplicity of lanes where data is striped across the lanes in a predefined sequence. Each lane has the ability to be powered down or powered up in response to the amount of data being held in a transmit buffer at one end of the communication channel. The method consists of monitoring the amount of data being held in the transmit buffer; making the decision of how many lanes are required based on the amount of data; sending signals to cause the required number of lanes to be powered down or powered up; and performing the required power down or power up action at the particular transmitter and receiver. The fill level of the transmit buffer is continually monitored and the required number of active lanes and the striping sequence is calculated and updated as required as a function of the fill level, where a larger amount of data waiting to be transmitted will result in a greater number of lanes being powered up and a smaller amount of data waiting to be transmitted will result in a lesser number of lanes being powered up. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120030438 | Method and Apparatus for Performing Skew Removal in the Receiver of a Multi-Lane Communication Link - Serial data streams received on multiple data lanes, wherein each data stream is in the form of a series of blocks including a data block preceded by a synchronization block, are deskewed by setting a detection flag in response to the valid detection of one or more synchronization blocks in each data stream, writing received data following the setting of said detection flag for that data stream to memory, and reading data sequentially from each memory under the control of a common output clock in response to the setting of the flag in respect at least a group of the data streams. | 02-02-2012 |
