Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Korea Telecommunication Authority

Other

Kwon-Chul Park

Bhum-Cheol Lee

Jin-Young Kim

Jong-Moo Sohn

Hee-Young Jung

Eun-Chang Choi

A method for using a nibble(partial bits of word) inversion code in a network system includes the steps of: a) adding 1 redundancy bit to n bit source data and generating a pre-code, n being an even number of 2 or over; b) deciding the number of transitions in the generated pre-code; c) determining the pre-code as a code word if the number of transitions in the pre-code is greater than or equal to 1&plus;n/2 in a deciding result; d) inverting alternate bits including the redundancy bit among bits constructing the pre-code and generating the code word, if the number of transitions in the pre-code is less than n/2 in the deciding result; e) determining the pre-code as the code word in case that the number of transitions in the pre-code is equal to n/2 and simultaneously the source data is not an in-band signaling and not a special word in the deciding result; and f) inverting the nibble among the bits constructing the pre-code and generating the code word, in case that the number of transitions in the pre-code is equal to n/2 and simultaneously the source data is an in-band signaling or is a special word in the deciding result.

Apparatus and method for using nibble inversion code

An nB2P coding/decoding device having a line code function facilitating data transmission and data recovery in the transmission line or link, and a function of a channel code for detecting errors in the recovered data, is provided, including: an nB2P coding device for dividing n bit width parallel data into two data units each having a predetermined bit width, and serial-transmitting the resulting n+2 bit coded data to which two odd parity bits are added, with predetermined n+2 bit with block synchronization data which is orthogonal to the coded data; and an nB2P decoding device for detecting the block synchronization data from the serially transmitted data, converts serial data to parallel form of n+2 bits, checking for errors in the coded data using the odd parity, and removing the odd parity to decode them into the original n bit width parallel data.

nB2P coding/decoding device

The present invention provides a high speed digital data retiming apparatus, in which, in binary data bits transmitted at a high speed, the data can be retimed in a stable manner, even if there are present a static skew due to a delay difference between the retiming clock pulse and the data and a dynamic skew due to the characteristic variation according to time and temperature. Therefore, the present invention has the following advantages compared with the conventional apparatus. First, periodical and regular external clock pulses are delayed by means of a delaying section, so that system performance is independent of the pattern of data. Second, even if the data phases show a continuous difference (wandering) for more than a certain period of time, an elastic buffer absorbs the wandering, and therefore, no data loss is generated, with the result that the system is not put to a disorder condition. Third, even in the case where a metastable state occurs, its occurrence probability can be significantly reduced by utilizing logic, thereby making it possible to retime the data in stable manner.

High speed digital data retiming apparatus

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Daejeon, South Korea

Kwon-Chul Park