Hardware Clock with Built-In Accuracy Check

    公开(公告)号:US20220224500A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-14

    申请号:US17148605

    申请日:2021-01-14

    Abstract: A network device includes one or more ports for connecting to a communication network, packet processing circuitry and clock circuitry. The packet processing circuitry is configured to communicate packets over the communication network via the ports. The clock circuitry includes a hardware clock configured to indicate a network time used for synchronizing network devices in the communication network, and a built-in accuracy test circuit configured to check an accuracy of the hardware clock.

    Synthesized clock synchronization between network devices

    公开(公告)号:US11283454B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-22

    申请号:US16920772

    申请日:2020-07-06

    Abstract: In one embodiment, a network device includes frequency generation circuitry configured to generate a clock signal, a phase-locked loop (PLL) configured to generate a local clock based on the clock signal, a plurality of receivers configured to receive respective data streams from respective remote clock sources, each receiver of the plurality of receivers being configured to recover a remote clock from a respective data stream, and a controller configured to identify the remote clock recovered by one of the plurality of receivers as a master clock, find a clock differential between the identified remote clock and the local clock, and provide a control signal to the frequency generation circuitry responsively to the clock differential, which causes the frequency generation circuitry to adjust the clock signal so as to iteratively reduce an absolute value of the clock differential.

    Communication with accelerator via RDMA-based network adapter

    公开(公告)号:US11184439B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-23

    申请号:US16827912

    申请日:2020-03-24

    Abstract: A network node includes a bus switching element, and a network adapter, an accelerator and a host, all coupled to communicate via the bus switching element. The network adapter is configured to communicate with remote nodes over a communication network. The host is configured to establish a RDMA link between the accelerator and the RDMA endpoint by creating a Queue Pair (QP) to be used by the accelerator for communication with the RDMA endpoint via the RDMA link. The accelerator is configured to exchange data, via the network adapter, between a memory of the accelerator and a memory of the RDMA endpoint.

    Network Adapter with Time-Aware Packet-Processing Pipeline

    公开(公告)号:US20210243140A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-05

    申请号:US16782075

    申请日:2020-02-05

    Abstract: A network adapter includes a host interface configured to communicate with a host, a network interface configured to communicate with a communication network, and packet processing circuitry. The packet processing circuitry is configured to receive a packet from the host via the host interface, or from the communication network via the network interface, to receive an indication of a network time used for synchronizing network elements in the communication network, to match the packet to a rule, the rule including a condition and an action, and to perform the action in response to the packet meeting the condition, wherein one or more of (i) the condition in the rule and (ii) the action in the rule, depend on the network time.

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