Patent ID: 7426252

Claim:
A method for using a high speed transceiver to receive lower data rate transmissions, the method comprises: receiving an n-bit data word at a first data transmission rate, wherein the first data transmission rate is less than a serial bit rate of the high speed transceiver; oversampling the n-bit data word at an oversampling rate of m to produce an m by n bit oversampled data word; determining transition boundary data of the m by n bit oversampled data word in accordance with a clock of the high speed transceiver to produce transition boundary data; selecting representative bits in accordance with the transition boundary data to produce a recovered data word; and storing the recovered data word; wherein the determining the transition boundary data of the m by n bit oversampled data word comprises: determining edges of the m by n bit oversampled data word to produce detected edges; determining a bit level sampling point of the m by n bit oversampled data word based on the detected edges; and delaying the m by n bit oversampled data word based on processing time to determine the edges and determine the bit level sampling point to produce a delayed m by n bit oversampled data word.