US Patent 9008157 System and method for controlling aberrant transceiver operation

A transceiver and a method of controlling aberrant transceiver operation. In one embodiment, the transceiver includes: (1) a processor, (2) an interrupt system coupled to the processor and having a flag register associated therewith, (3) detection circuits associated with corresponding functional units of the transceiver and configured to detect conditions regarding the corresponding functional units and set corresponding flags in the flag register, the interrupt system configured to assert interrupts in response thereto and (4) an interrupt-handing routine executable in the processor and configured to respond to the interrupts by carrying out at least one of loading parameters and generating warnings based on identities of the flags.