US 12,229,439 B1
Power-optimized and shared buffer
Niv Aibester, Herzliya (IL); Eyal Srebro, Kfar Yehoshua (IL); Liron Mula, Hertzliya (IL); and Amit Kazimirsky, Tel Aviv (IL)
Assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Yokneam (IL)
Filed by MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Yokneam (IL)
Filed on Aug. 2, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/229,509.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 1/3234 (2019.01); H04L 49/90 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/0656 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 1/3275 (2013.01); H04L 49/90 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A network device, comprising:
a shared buffer comprising a plurality of cells of memory;
one or more ports to one or more of read data from the shared buffer and write data to the shared buffer; and
a controller circuit to selectively enable and disable cells of memory of the shared buffer based at least in part on an amount of data stored in the shared buffer.