Patent ID: 7515598

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a plurality of transmit storage structures each being associated with a storage width; a write block to receive information having a first width via an interface associated with a configurable width, wherein the write block is to: write a first portion of the information into a first storage structure and is to write a second portion of the information into a second storage structure at the same time, without writing any of the first portion into the second storage structure, when the width of the interface is greater than the storage width, wherein the write block comprises an address signal line to send an address to the first storage structure and the second storage structure, a first write enable signal line to send an enable signal to the first storage structure and a second write enable signal line to send a second enable signal to the second storage structure; and accumulate the first portion and a second portion before writing the first portion and the second portion of the information when the width of the interface is less than the storage width, wherein the first portion has a second width, wherein the second portion does not include any of the first portion and has the second width, and wherein the second width is smaller than the first width; and a read block to read the information from the storage structures and to transmit information to a network line.