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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
May. 13, 2009
Bradley John Booth, Austin, TX (US);
Bradley John Booth, Austin, TX (US);
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are provided for accelerating forward error correction (FEC) synchronization in a communicating receiver. On the transmitter side, the method accepts an energy waveform representing a packet of data symbols, encodes the packet, and creates an FEC block. Prior to transmitting the FEC block, an electromagnetic waveform is transmitted representing an FEC flag character. Then, an electromagnetic waveform representing the FEC block is transmitted a predetermined first period of time after the transmission of the FEC flag character. For example, the first time period may be immediately following the FEC flag character transmission or a predetermined number of idle characters following the transmission of the FEC flag character.