Data transmission apparatus and method for transmitting data in delay-insensitive data transmission method supporting handshake protocol

A data transmission apparatus for transmitting data in a Delay-Insensitive (DI) data transmission method supporting a handshake protocol, the data transmission apparatus comprising:

• a sender configured to output a binary-valued logic signal based on binary-valued logic;
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• an encoder configured to encode the binary-valued logic signal input through input wires into a multi-valued logic signal based on multi-valued logic, and transmit the encoded multi-valued logic signal to a decoder through output wires,
• wherein the encoder includes a mapping table storing input variables including a number of input wires and a number of output wires smaller than the number of input wires and the multi-valued logic signal corresponding to the input variables, and encodes the binary-valued logic signal into the multi-valued logic signal with reference to the mapping table, and
• wherein the encoder extracts a logic combination of the binary-valued logic signal expressed according to the number of input wires and the multi-valued logic signal mapped to the number of output wires with reference to the mapping table, and encodes the binary-valued logic signal into the extracted multi-valued logic signal.