Patent ID: 8446978
Filing Date: 2013-05-21
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A communication system, comprising: a transmission apparatus including: a frame signal generation section which generates a frame signal by extracting a part of data from each of channels of input signals of multiple channels and by adding framing data for enabling a receiving side to recognize which channel extracted data has been extracted from; and a coding section which codes the input signals of the multiple channels to generate multi-level-coded signals of the same number of channels and to transmit the multi-level-coded signals in parallel, and which codes the frame signal to generate and to transmit a deskew signal for suppressing skew among the multi-level-coded signals; and a receiving apparatus including: a decoding section which receives and decodes the multi-level-coded signals to generate decoded signals; and a deskew processing section which receives the deskew signal and performs deskew processing for compensating skew among the decoded signals of the multiple channels, wherein the frame signal generation section inserts fixed levels between the extracted data to output the frame signal; the coding section generates the multi-level-coded signals in which one code takes three or more levels, by performing coding processing of the input signals based on the input levels of the input signals in accordance with a state transition in which a transition to a state indicating a level to be taken by one code of the multi-level-coded signals is performed; and the coding section generates the deskew signal which has been framed, which is a binary-coded signal, by performing the coding processing of the frame signal in which the fixed levels are inserted with the use of the same state transition used to generate the multi-level-coded signals to binary-code the frame signal, and by performing rate conversion so that the rate is lower than the transmission rate of the multi-level-coded signal of one of the multiple channels.