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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Lakshminarayana Baba Arimilli, Austin, TX (US);
Yiftach Benjamini, Givat Ela, IL;
Bartholomew Blaner, Shelburne, VT (US);
Daniel M. Dreps, Georgetown, TX (US);
John David Irish, Rochester, MN (US);
David J. Krolak, Rochester, MN (US);
Lonny Lambrecht, Bryon, MN (US);
Michael S. Siegel, Raleigh, NC (US);
William J. Starke, Round Rock, TX (US);
Jeffrey A. Stuecheli, Austin, TX (US);
Kenneth M. Valk, Rochester, MN (US);
Curtis C. Wollbrink, Rochester, MN (US);
International Busiess Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A serial communication system includes a transmitting circuit for serially transmitting data via a serial communication link including N channels where N is an integer greater than 1. The transmitting circuit includes an input buffer having storage for input data frames each including M bytes forming N segments of M/N contiguous bytes. The transmitting circuit additionally includes a reordering circuit coupled to the input buffer. The reordering circuit includes a reorder buffer including multiple entries. The reordering circuit buffers, in each of multiple entries of the reorder buffer, a byte in a common byte position in each of the N segments of an input data frame. The reordering circuit sequentially outputs the contents of the entries of the reorder buffer via the N channels of the serial communication link.