Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fractional multiplexing of serial attached small computer system interface links
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Application No.: US15418201Application Date: 2017-01-27
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Publication No.: US10171193B2Publication Date: 2019-01-01
- Inventor: Gregory Arthur Tabor , John Matthew Adams , Keith Graham Shaw , Larrie Simon Carr , Salman Ghufran
- Applicant: Microsemi Solutions (U.S.), Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Aliso Viejo
- Assignee: Microsemi Solutions (U.S.), Inc.
- Current Assignee: Microsemi Solutions (U.S.), Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Aliso Viejo
- Agency: Leber IP Law
- Agent Shelly M. Fujikawa
- Main IPC: H04J3/16
- IPC: H04J3/16 ; H04L12/863

Abstract:
Methods, devices, and systems relating to Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage interconnect technology are provided. An SAS serial connection is established between an SAS initiator and an SAS expander over a physical link for communications between the SAS initiator and a plurality of target devices. The plurality of target devices is in communication with the SAS expander. SAS packets associated with each of the plurality of target devices are dynamically multiplexed and transmitted over the single SAS serial connection. Each SAS packet comprises one or more information bits indicating the target device with which the SAS packet is associated. The dynamically multiplexed SAS packets transmitted over the SAS connection may comprise SAS packets associated with at least two target devices having different maximum physical link rates. A result may be improved bandwidth utilization of the physical link when legacy SAS target devices with slower physical link rates are utilized.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180219641A1 FRACTIONAL MULTIPLEXING OF SERIAL ATTACHED SMALL COMPUTER SYSTEM INTERFACE LINKS Public/Granted day:2018-08-02
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