Pipelined decoder for high frequency operation.

摘要

In a decoder for decoding a serial data stream, employing an extracted base clock signal, synchronous with an input, coded, serial data stream, a fractionary frequency clock signal for sampling a decoded output data stream and a second fractionary clock signal for synthesizing a pre-decoded value produced by a first combinative logic network within a second combinative logic network to produce a decoded value that is sent to an output sampling flip-flop, a pipelined operation is implemented by momentarily storing the bits that are processed in the second combinative logic network and by anticipating of two full cycles of the synchronous base clock the processing by said first combinative network of the n-number of bits handled by the decoder. Each one of the two combinative logic networks is permitted to complete its decoding process within a full clock cycle in advance of the raising front of the outpunt sampling clock signal. With the same fabrication technology and therefore with the same propagation delay of the two combinative logic networks, the maximum operating spead may be doubled. A limited number of additional components are required to implement the pipelined operation of the invention. <IMAGE>