Patent ID: 7382823

Claim:
A system for coordinating channel bonding operations of a plurality of transceivers of an integrated circuit, comprising: a master transceiver of the integrated circuit that performs channel bonding operations for aligning different portions of a data stream transmitted in parallel by way of a plurality of data channels; a plurality of first level transceivers of the integrated circuit that perform channel bonding operations, each first level transceivers being controlled by the master transceiver and receiving a control signal by way of a first configurable path, wherein the first configurable path is configured according to a first mode signal for a first level transceiver, the first mode signal determining a delay of the control signal received by way of the first configurable path; and a plurality of second level transceivers of the integrated circuit that perform channel bonding operations, each second level transceiver being controlled by one of the plurality of first level transceivers and receiving a control signal by way of a second configurable path, wherein the second configurable path is configured according to a second mode signal for a second level transceiver, the second mode signal determining a delay of the control signal received by way of the second configurable path; wherein each transceiver comprises a controller receiving a mode control signal designating the transceiver as a master transceiver or a slave transceiver and enabling a control signal to be applied to the transceiver by way of a configurable path during a predetermined clock cycle to enable channel bonding operations for aligning the different portions of the data stream transmitted in parallel.