Patent ID: 11923978
Assignee: MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A first multi-port transceiver, comprising:
a plurality of first ports that are configured to communicatively couple with a plurality of first communication cables, each first port configured to operate at a first data rate;
a first communication interface that is configured to transmit and receive data at a second data rate higher than the first data rate;
a second communication interface that is configured to transmit and receive data at a third data rate higher than the second data rate;
multi-rate interleaver circuitry that is configured to interleave i) a plurality of first data streams, each received via a respective first port at the first data rate, and ii) a second data stream received via the first communication interface at the second data rate, to generate a third data stream to be transmitted via the second communication interface at the third data rate; and
multi-rate deinterleaver circuitry that is configured to deinterleave a fourth data stream that was received via the second communication interface at the third data rate into i) a plurality of fifth data streams, each fifth data stream to be transmitted via a respective first port at the first data rate, and ii) a sixth data stream to be transmitted via the first communication interface at the second data rate.