| 摘要 |
<p>A multi-port communications system (100) is described, which includes hardware based subsystems for performing both physical medium dependent operations and transport convergence operations on a data transmission. A software based subsystem performs other operations as needed. Both types of subsystems are shareable by the communications ports so as to reduce a total hardware requirement of a communications system (100). In addition, processing blocks within both subsystems are adapted to be multitasking, in that they can perform multiple operations for a receive/transmit task, or even pipeline arrangement with a common memory to further maximize the flexibility and configurability of a communications system (100).</p> |
