Digital storage systems
AssigneeMicro Consultants Limited
InventorIan Clive Walker
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Abstract
The apparatus is provided for inserting synchronizing data between blocks of serial data. A synchronizing data generating means produces a predetermined data sequence. Selector means are connected to said data generator and an input receives the serial data and is selected by said means or alternatively the means selects the synchronizing data. Control means are connected to an output of the selector means for producing an identification gap in the serial data before the start of the synchronizing data. The signal produced at an output of the control means comprises a data gap followed by the synchronizing data and the serial data.
Claims10
Apparatus for inserting synchronising data between blocks of serial data, said apparatus comprising:
- a. synchronising data generating means for producing a predetermined data sequence,
- b. selector means connected to said data generator and an input receiving said serial data for selecting either said serial data or said synchronising data,
- c. control means connected to an output of said selector means for producing an identification gap of a length equivalent to N bits of data in the serial data before the start of the synchronising data whereby the signal produced at an output of said control means comprises a data gap followed by said synchronising data and said serial data.
A method of inserting synchronising data between blocks of serial data comprising:
- a. producing a predetermined synchronising data sequence,
- b. selecting either said serial data or said synchronising data, and
- c. controlling said selected data to produce an identification gap in the data of a length equivalent to N bits of data before the start of the synchronising data which synchronising data is followed by said serial data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.