Serial communications system and method
OwnerBharadwaj Amrutur, Richard Walkerinventors
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Abstract
A communications system and method are disclosed. A transmitter includes a scrambler for scrambling original data, an ECC encoder for converting scrambled data into ECC data, and a serializer for converting the ECC data into a serial stream. A receiver includes a frame recoverer for converting the serial data into frame data, an ECC decoder from converting the frame data into ECC data and error indications, and a descrambler for restoring the original data. By using the results of the ECC decoding to convert the serial data into frame data, line decoding is unnecessary, thereby reducing channel usage.
Claims33
A serial communications system comprising:
- a scrambler for converting received data into scrambled data;
- and
- an ECC encoder for converting said scrambled data into ECC-encoded data.
The system as recited in claim 5, wherein said frame-recoverer uses said error indications in converting said serialized data into data frames.
A serial communications method, comprising the steps of:
- converting received data into scrambled data;
- and
- converting said scrambled data into ECC-encoded data.
A serial communications system comprising:
- an ECC decoder for converting data frames into ECC-decoded data;
- and
- a de-scrambler for converting said ECC-decoded data into de-scrambled data.
A serial communications system comprising:
- an ECC decoder for converting data frames into ECC-decoded data and error indications;
- and
- a frame recoverer for converting serialized data into said data frames using said error indications.
A serial communications method comprising:
- converting serialized data into data frames as a function of error indications;
- and
- converting said data frames into ECC-decoded data and said error indications.
A serial communications method comprising:
- converting data frames into ECC-decoded data and error indications;
- and
- de-scrambling said ECC-decoded data into de-scrambled data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.