Patent ID: 7287176

Claim:
An apparatus for carrying out a deskew among multiple lanes for use in a division transmission of large-capacity data, comprising: first means for detecting alignment characters based on a lane-by-lane basis from character streams as data streams received into the multiple lanes and outputting first signals representing a reception status of an alignment character of each lane, respectively; second means responsive to the first signals from the first means for outputting second signal to indicate whether the alignment characters have been detected in all the lanes within a deskew setting section from the instant of detecting a first alignment character from one lane; parallel storage control means responsive to the first and second signals and the received data streams for setting data being subsequent to the alignment character of each lane and sequentially storing the data in a storage device, sequentially outputting the stored data to align the data streams if the data of one section is completely stored; and output selection means for intactly outputting the data streams before the deskew is completely accomplished in the storage device and outputting the aligned data streams from the parallel storage control means after the deskew is completely accomplished.