Patent Document ID: 20140006675
Application ID: 13534568
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. An apparatus comprising: a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) interface module to interface the processor to another PCIe component, the PCIe interface module comprising: a transaction layer; a data layer, the transaction layer and data layer to form packets that carry data between the processor and the other PCIe component; a physical layer, the physical layer to negotiate a link between the processor and the PCIe component by exchanging a number (N) of Fast Training Sequences (FTS), the physical layer to count a number of good FTSs exchanged during a first link training between the PCIe components, a number of FTSs to be exchanged during a subsequent link training to be N reduced by the number of good FTSs exchanged during the first link training.