Patent ID: 7598768
Filing Date: 2009-10-06
Classification: G05B,H03K,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of provisioning communication ports in a programmable device, the method comprising: initially configuring a plurality of multi-gigabit transceivers (MGTs) and corresponding sets of configurable resources to implement one or more communication protocols; activating communications with the plurality of MGTs in accordance with the one or more communication protocols; deactivating one of the plurality of MGTs, wherein at least one MGT attribute is reconfigured relative to the initial MGT configuration; and reconfiguring the set of configurable resources corresponding to the deactivated MGT while continuing communications with the activated MGTs, wherein the reconfiguring the at least one MGT attribute includes changing a data coding format used to encode data prior to transmission and changing data alignment characters used to separate the data to be transmitted.