Transceiver having shadow memory facilitating on-transceiver collection and communication of local parameters

摘要

The present invention relates to a register for a single chip multi-sublayer PHY. More specifically, the present invention relates to a transceiver module including a single chip multi-layer PHY having one or more shadow registers. The transceiver module includes one or more storage modules adapted to store transceiver module local data. The shadow registers are adapted to facilitate collection of the local data from the storage modules and communicate the collected data to another portion of the transceiver module and/or to the upper lever system using at least one interface communicating with the shadow register.