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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2004
Applicant:
Ning Xue, Fremont, CA (US);
Inventor:
Ning Xue, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/12 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The capacity of a single high-speed serial link between programmable logic devices or other integrated circuits may be provided using multiple lower-speed serial links arranged in parallel. Circuitry is provided for synchronizing and deskewing serial data streams from the multiple lower-speed serial links. At a receiving integrated circuit, a first-in-first-out buffer may be associated with each of the lower-speed serial links. Each first-in-first-out buffer may be used to provide both synchronization functions and channel alignment functions.