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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2010
Error detection in physical interfaces for point-to-point communications between integrated circuits
Brian K. Schmidt, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lawrence Llewelyn Butcher, Mountain View, CA (US);
Brian K. Schmidt, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lawrence Llewelyn Butcher, Mountain View, CA (US);
Silicon Image, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, system and method for detecting errors in a physical interface during the transmission and/or receipt of data communications between integrated circuits ('ICs') are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus for generating error-detection codes in a physical interface for the transmission of data communications between integrated circuits ('ICs') includes an N-bit-to-N+2-bit (“N bit/(N+2) bit”) physical layer (“PHY”) encoder configured to insert a physical interface error detection bit with N application data bits to form N+1 unencoded data bits, and encode said N+1 unencoded data bits to yield N+2 encoded data bits. The apparatus further includes an error-detection code generator configured to generate a number of bits constituting an error-detection code that includes said physical interface error detection bit, wherein N represents any integer number of data bits.