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US8239580B2 - Programmed I/O ethernet adapter with early interrupts for accelerating data transfer - Google Patents
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An alternative configuration for an adapter 10′ for networks carried by coaxial cable physical media 30′ rather than twisted pair physical media 30 is illustrated in FIG. 2. Adapter 10′ employs an ASIC 210′ that is substantially identical to ASIC 210, except that it uses an external coaxial transceiver 260 rather than internal twisted pair transceiver 100
b) adjusting said first receive threshold number of bytes if said evaluating step does not indicate substantial equality.
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