Patent ID: 6999516

Claim:
A system for emulating differential signaling, the system comprising: an encoder for encoding a plurality of input signals so as to generate a plurality of encoded signals having a spatial run length of N, wherein N is an integer having a value of at least two; a transmission medium for transmitting the plurality of encoded signals from the encoder and thereby providing a respective plurality of transmitted encoded signals; a plurality of comparators, each of the plurality of comparators for comparing a respective one of the plurality of transmitted encoded signals with at least N neighboring others of the plurality of transmitted encoded signals so as to generate a respective one of a plurality of recovered encoded signals representing a respective one of the plurality of encoded signals, wherein the at least N neighboring others of the plurality of transmitted encoded signals are the N neighboring transmitted encoded signals which are nearest in spatial proximity; and a decoder for decoding the plurality of recovered encoded signals so as to generate a plurality of decoded signals representing the plurality of input signals.