Patent ID: 7782805
Filing Date: 2010-08-24
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of constructing frames for transmission on a multi-lane serial interface, the method comprising: for each of a plurality of transmit channels, fragmenting packets into fragments; generating meta-frames having a size defined by a first dimension by a second dimension, the first dimension being a constant meta-frame length, the second dimension being a number of lanes of the multi-lane serial interface, each frame having a meta-frame separator and a payload; receiving per-transmit channel flow control information; wherein each payload comprises a plurality of bursts, each burst comprising a burst control word and an associated data burst, the burst control word identifying one of said transmit channels, each data burst comprising one of the fragments for the transmit channel identified in the associated burst control word, the transmit channels for which bursts will be included to transmit in a given meta-frame being selected as a function of the received flow control information; transmitting the frames over the multi-lane serial interface.