Patent ID: 8645590
Filing Date: 2014-02-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing a method for providing rate matching using a first Serial Attached Small Computer System Interface (SAS) device, said method comprising: transmitting communications to and receiving communications from a second SAS device for negotiating use of a set of SAS ALIGN primitives, the second SAS device being communicatively coupled with the first SAS device, the set of SAS ALIGN primitives including a plurality of SAS ALIGN primitives; receiving transmitted bitstreams at a decision feedback equalizer of the first SAS device, the bitstreams having been transmitted from the second SAS device, each of the bitstreams including data and the plurality of ALIGN primitives, the ALIGN primitives promoting lowering of effective data rates of the bitstreams for providing rate matching; and directing the received bitstreams through a Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter of the decision feedback equalizer of the first SAS device to provide a filter output.