This Chapter

This chapter describes the Logical characteristics of the Physical Layer core logic. It describes how an outbound packet is processed before clocking the packet out differentially. The chapter also describes how an inbound packet arriving from the Link is processed and sent to the Data Link Layer. The chapter describes sub-block functions of the Physical Layer such as Byte Striping and Un-Striping logic, Scrambler and De-Scrambler, 8b/10b Encoder and Decoder, Elastic Buffers and more.