Parallel framer and transport protocol with distributed framing and continuous data

摘要

A method and system for serially communicating a stream of data characters having bit-interleaved framing information. One embodiment discloses a method for interleaving a single bit of a frame marker sequence to each data character to demarcate each of the data characters and then serializing the data. The transmitting device serially transmits the data characters with bit-interleaved framing at a high transmission bit rate, over a single communication link. The receiving device captures the data stream and de-serializes the data. It then locates the bit position of the character boundary by detecting a predetermined frame marker sequence located in the same bit position over consecutive data characters. The offset is used to frame the data. A character rate greater than 70 MHz can be realized and a bit transmission rate of greater than 1 Gbit/second can be achieved.