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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2024
Marvell Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore, SG;
Dong-Seok Youm, San Jose, CA (US);
Shu-Shin Chin, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Lenin Kumar Patra, Dublin, CA (US);
Venugopal Balasubramonian, San Jose, CA (US);
Yaniv Kopelman, Mishmeret, IL;
Eyal Lieder, Kiryat Bialik, IL;
Joergen Peter Ravn Hofman-Bang, Ballerup, DK;
Marvell Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore, SG;
Abstract
An interface device distributes data from a plurality of input data streams to a smaller number first data streams, and periodically inserts a set of alignment markers (AMs) into the first data streams. After using the AMs, the interface device removes the AMs and reinserts the AMs at particular positions. A forward error correction (FEC) encoder encodes data corresponding to the first data stream to generate FEC codewords and distributes data from the FEC codewords to multiple outputs streams. Within the output streams, the AMs are located at FEC codeword boundaries and bits of a first AM, among the set of AMs, are spread across multiple outputs stream. A single output data stream is generated based on the multiple output streams of the FEC encoder.