Patent ID: 11907074
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein:
the mapping comprise making a data assignment to each lane in the set of non-degraded lanes, the data assignment comprising:
one of a set of staged degrade-lane instances of the serialized data, wherein the one of the set of staged degrade-lane instances has been staged for no more than one cycle;
one of a set of staged non-degrade-lane instances of the serialized data, wherein the one of the set of staged non-degrade-lane instances of the serialized data has been staged for no more than one cycle; or
one of a set of non-staged non-degrade-lane instances of the serialized data;
wherein the one of the set of staged degrade-lane instances of the serialized data is assigned to a currently-being-mapped lane from a first lane that is no more than R lanes away from the currently-being-mapped lane, wherein R equals a total number of degraded lanes in the set of degraded lanes; and
wherein the one of the set of staged non-degrade-lane instances of the serialized data is assigned to the currently-being-mapped lane from a second lane that is no more than R lanes away from the currently-being-mapped lane;
wherein during a first cycle in the set of cycles, the lane assignment is one of the set of non-staged non-degrade-lane instances of the serialized data; and
wherein during a last cycle in the set of cycles, the lane assignment is:
one of the set of staged degrade-lane instances of the serialized data; or
one of the set of staged non-degrade-lane instances of the serialized data.