摘要 |
An adapter card employs a multi-formatting execution unit, one or more descriptor queues and one or more communication channels. The multi-formatting execution unit formats each data transfer between two or more network devices based on one of a plurality of data formatting schemes with each data formatting scheme being at least partially dissimilar from the other data formatting schemes. The descriptor queue(s) store one or more job descriptors with each job descriptor being indicative of a selection of one of the data formatting schemes for formatting a corresponding data transfer between the network devices. The communication channels operable to selectively connect the descriptor queue(s) to the multi-formatting execution unit to facilitate an electrical communication of each one job descriptor from the descriptor queue(s) to the multi-formatting execution unit.
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