US 12,438,567 B2
SerDes method and device having a protocol-agnostic in-band management channel
Ashwin Upadhya, Fremont, CA (US); Haoli Qian, Fremont, CA (US); and Fang Cai, San Carlos, CA (US)
Assigned to Credo Technology Group Limited, Grand Cayman (KY)
Filed by Credo Technology Group Limited, Grand Cayman (KY)
Filed on Dec. 8, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/533,703.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/545,235, filed on Oct. 23, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0192813 A1, Jun. 12, 2025
Int. Cl. H04B 1/38 (2015.01); H04L 7/04 (2006.01)
CPC H04B 1/38 (2013.01) [H04L 7/04 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An in-band communications method that comprises, in a local transceiver:
buffering an outbound data stream from a host-side receiver with a data stream buffer, the outbound data stream having a first bit rate; and
providing a line-side data stream having a second bit rate greater than the first bit rate, the line-side data stream representing the outbound data stream with an additional word after every N words of the outbound data stream,
the additional words including message words.