Patent ID: 8259755

Claim:
A method of transmitting data between a transmitter having data to send, and a receiver, comprising: determining a skew budget between a plurality of serial links disposed between the transmitter and receiver; determining a number of bits N, where N is an integer greater than M×S, where M is the number of serial links, and S is the skew budget in bit times; capturing, in a circuit and in response to determining N, a first N bits of the data to be sent; beginning the transmission of the first N bits on a first one of the plurality of serial links; capturing, in a circuit and in response to determining N, a second N bits of the data; and transmitting the second N bits of data at approximately N/M bit times subsequent to the beginning of the transmission on the first one of the plurality of serial links, and beginning the transmission of the second N bits on a second one of the plurality of serial links.