Patent ID: 7280051

Claim:
A data source and a data sink for transmitting a digitized data word with a word width of n bits therebetween in a data transmission system having a channel width of m bits, where n is greater than m, comprising: the data source that includes a source logic circuit that decomposes the digitized data word into at least two partial data words, each partial data word having a width less than m bits, where the source logic circuit shifts a number of bits of a first one of the at least two partial data words at least one bit position in a predetermined direction, where the source logic circuit adds an identifier bit into a predetermined bit position of each partial data word, where the identifier bit identifies each partial data word within the digitized data word, and where the data source transmits the at least two partial data words to the data sink over the data transmission system; and the data sink receives the transmitted at least two partial data words and includes a sink logic circuit that recomposes the at least two partial data words into the digitized data word with a word width of n bits in accordance with the identifier bit for each partial data word, where the sink logic circuit shifts the number of bits of the first one of the at least two partial data words at least one bit position in a direction opposite that of the predetermined direction that the source logic circuit shifted the first one of the at least two partial data words.