High speed serial communications link for desktop computer peripherals

摘要

The system described provides a reconfigurable serial interconnection among a processor, whether in a workstation or a server, and user class I/O devices, such as video display terminals, storage devices, and other peripherals. Sustainable I/O throughput of 1 Gbps or more supports the needs of display and video input devices. In addition the system allows hot plug-and-play of user class I/O devices.