Patent ID: 8327231

Claim:
A method for increasing a data rate in a physical layer device, wherein a data transmission rate of X bits/s is produced when transmitting symbols based on a block of L bits that is generated by encoding a block of N data bits with M error correction bits and P parity bits using a first clocking rate, the method comprising: receiving a stream of N+Y data bits in a low density parity check encoding module, Y>0; generating, by said low density parity check module, a low density parity check encoded data block of L bits, said low density parity check encoded data block of L bits being generated using said received stream of N+Y data bits and M−Z error correction bits, Z>0, and P+Q parity bits, Q≧0; and transmitting, by said physical layer device, symbols based on said low density parity check encoded data block of L bits using a second clocking rate, wherein said transmission has a data transmission rate greater than X bits/s.