Patent ID: 9673931
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A serial communication link, comprising: a first component including a first management module and a first encoder that provides A-bit/B-bit encoded data to a first channel, where A<B and where A and B are non-zero integers; and a second component including a second management module and a first decoder/bit-error-rate (BER) module that receives the A-bit/B-bit encoded data from the first channel, determines a BER associated with the A-bit/B-bit encoded data, and provides an indication to the second management module when the BER is higher than a threshold BER level; the second management module communicates the indication to the first management module; and the first management module directs the first encoder to provide C-bit/D-bit encoded data to the first channel in response to receiving the indication, where C<D, C<A, and D<B, and where C and D are non-zero integers.