Method, apparatus and system for configuring a protocol stack of an integrated circuit chip

• Main Authors: Wood Aimee D, Ananthakrishnan Avinash N, Song Marcus W, Boswell Brent R, Spry Bryan L, Rangaraj Deepak M, Letendre Adam E, Hayes Robert J
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 15.08.2017
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

Techniques and mechanisms for configuring an integrated circuit (IC) chip to implement a protocol stack. In an embodiment, a transaction layer of the IC chip is operable to exchange with a link layer of the IC chip transaction layer packets (TLPs) having a format compatible with one defined in a Per...