Transmitters providing cycle encoded signals

A chip comprising:

• a transmitter including a cycle encoding circuit to receive a data input signal and a periodic reference signal and to provide a cycle encoded signal in response thereto, wherein in response to the data input signal and the periodic reference signal, the cycle encoded signal is formed of continuously joined cycles of encoding signals during successive data time segment, wherein each data time segment represents a cycle, wherein some of the encoding signals have a different frequency than others of the encoding signals and some of the encoding signals have a different phase than others of the encoding signals,
• wherein each of the data time segments has the same time duration, wherein only one encoding signal is to be used per data segment, and wherein no data time segment has more than one cycle of an encoding signal.

A system comprising:

• a transmitter including a cycle encoding circuit to receive a data input signal and to provide a full cycle encoded signal in response thereto by continuously joining cycles of encoding signals, wherein some of the encoding signals have a different frequency than others of the encoding signals and some of the encoding signals have a different phase than others of the encoding signals, wherein data is represented in data time segments of the full cycle encoded signal, wherein each data time segment represents a cycle, wherein only one encoding signal is to be used per data segment, and wherein no data time segment has more than one cycle of an encoding signal;
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• a receiver to receive the full cycle encoded signal and recover values of the data input signal in response thereto.