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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 07, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
David T. Johnson, Leucadia, CA (US);
Steven G. Robalino, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 2/536 ; H04L 2/540 ; H04L 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 2/536 ; H04L 2/540 ; H04L 7/00 ;
Abstract
The invention provides an apparatus, and related method, for receiving and synchronizing parallel data transmitted over multiple serial data channels. The synchronization technique uses a channel lock FIFO buffer on each received serial data channel. The FIFO buffers are configured to tolerate a significant amount of jitter between channels and clock tree delay within the synchronization apparatus.