CROSS POINT SWITCH WITH OUT-OF-BAND PARAMETER FINE TUNING

摘要

A digital switch includes a switching fabric (102) that switches data between a plurality of ports. The switching fabric includes data lines (106) and a control line. An arbitrator arbitrates traffic between the plurality of ports. A command processor receives a command over the control line and modifies a switching fabric parameter in response to the command. The control line is preferably the same line that is not used during normal switching fabric operations, such as, for example, an ABORT line, or ABORT pin.