A couple posts ago, we talked about Layer 1 of the OSI Model — the Physical Layer. Today, we’ll start our climb up the Model with a visit to Layer 2, the Data Link Layer. The Data Link Layer is one of ...

We met Mr. Murphy, of “What can go wrong, will” infamy, in the introduction to failure modes and the discussion of failure modes at the foundation levels. Now we will learn his tricks on shared media ...

The data link layer takes in the parallel framed data (containing ADC samples, control bits, and tail bits) and outputs 8b/10b words that are serialized in the physical layer and can optionally be ...

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems become the backbone of modern data centers, they generate and consume a massive amount of data. Traditional Ethernet was ...

Ethernet has become the primary network protocol of choice for the required server-to-server communication in hyperscale data centers, as it allows hyperscalers to ...

Today’s designers are turning to wireless technology more than ever before to get devices to talk to each other. Especially when battery-powered, this means that we no longer need to string wires ...

Complexity of the USB4 Link, due to the 20-Gb/s signal rate and the need to bond for an aggregate 40 Gb/s, among other reasons, requires a coordinated plan to reach its full potential. Here’s a ...