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Sub-Block Interaction<br />

n<br />

Logical and Electrical sub-blocks each have two main<br />

sections<br />

l Transmit section<br />

– Logical sub-block prepares outgoing packets received<br />

from the Data Link Layer, performs 8B/10B symbol<br />

encoding, and passes symbols to the Electrical subblock<br />

– Electrical sub-block takes conditioned symbols received<br />

from Logical sub-block and transmits in a serial bit<br />

stream out the device’s physical transmit port<br />

l Receive section<br />

– Electrical sub-block receives a serial bit stream over the<br />

device’s physical receive port, recovers the clock, strips<br />

the framing bits, and passes a symbols to the Logical<br />

sub-block<br />

– Logical sub-block performs 10B/8B decoding and<br />

passes packet to the Data Link Layer<br />

Copyright by Dashcourses, Inc. 2009<br />

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