Accurate Time-Stamping of Outbound Packets

    公开(公告)号:US20220416925A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-29

    申请号:US17359667

    申请日:2021-06-28

    Abstract: A network device includes a port, a transmission pipeline and a time-stamping circuit. The port is configured for connecting to a network. The transmission pipeline includes multiple pipeline stages and is configured to process packets and to send the packets to the network via the port. The time-stamping circuit is configured to temporarily suspend at least some processing of at least a given packet in the transmission pipeline, to verify whether a pipeline stage having a variable processing delay, located downstream from the time-stamping circuit, meets an emptiness condition, and, only when the pipeline stage meets the emptiness condition, to time-stamp the given packet and resume the processing of the given packet.

    SOFTWARE-DEFINED SIGNAL DEVICE SYSTEMS
    15.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240213996A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-27

    申请号:US18101675

    申请日:2023-01-26

    CPC classification number: H03M1/124

    Abstract: Embodiments described herein can enable minimum processing performed at a signal device level, such that the majority of the non-domain-specific processing can be offloaded to a processing device. For example, the processing device can receive signal data from a signal device, preprocess the signal data to obtain preprocessed signal data having a data format for domain-specific processing by software executed by at least one processing unit of a processing platform, and provide the preprocessed signal data for domain-specific processing by the software executed by the at least one processing unit.

    Hybrid clock synchronization
    16.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240204897A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-20

    申请号:US18067767

    申请日:2022-12-19

    CPC classification number: H04J3/0667

    Abstract: In one embodiment, a processing system includes an interface controller to receive a data signal from a remote link partner over a link, and recover a clock signal from the received data signal, frequency generation circuitry to receive the recovered clock signal, and output a local clock signal responsively to the received recovered clock signal, wherein the interface controller is configured to drive a transmit symbol rate responsively to the local clock signal, and a digital control loop including the interface controller and the frequency generation circuitry, wherein the interface controller is configured to identify a clock drift, generate a digital control signal responsively to the clock drift, and send the digital control signal to the frequency generation circuitry, which is configured to adjust a frequency of the local clock signal responsively to the digital control signal in order to reduce the clock drift.

    SCALABLE SYNCHRONIZATION OF NETWORK DEVICES
    18.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240031121A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-25

    申请号:US17871937

    申请日:2022-07-24

    CPC classification number: H04L7/0012

    Abstract: In one embodiment, a communication system includes network devices, each comprising a network interface to receive at least one data stream, a given network device being configured to recover a remote clock from the at least one data stream received by the given network device, a frequency synthesizer to generate a clock signal and output the clock signal to each of the network devices, wherein the given network device is configured to find a clock frequency differential between the clock signal and the recovered remote clock, and provide a control signal to the frequency synthesizer responsively to the clock frequency differential, the control signal causes the frequency synthesizer to adjust the clock signal so as to iteratively reduce an absolute value of the clock frequency differential between the clock signal and the recovered remote clock.

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