Patent ID: 11888586
Assignee: nan
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A method for processing serial data received at a receiving data rate, the method comprising:
deserializing the received serial data, through a receiving physical medium attachment (PMA), to output a parallelized sample stream, the deserializing being driven by a device-wide clock generated by an oscillator, and according to a word-width of the parallelized sample stream, whereby the parallelized sample stream is an oversampling of the received serial data, the oversampling of the received serial data being asynchronous relative to a timing of the received serial data;
detecting, through a symbol timing synchronization module, from the parallelized sample stream, synchronized bit values corresponding to bit values of the received serial data; and
delineating packet on the synchronized bit values, through a physical convergence sublayer (PCS), to provide packet-delineated parallelized data,
wherein the receiving PMA, the symbol timing synchronization module and the PCS are all driven by the device-wide clock.