Patent ID: 8897080

Claim:
A method of transferring data from an m-bit wide serial format to an N by m-bit wide parallel format, where N is an integer two or greater and m is an integer one or greater, comprising: receiving a stream of data on a serial bus in an m-bit wide serial format; receiving a first clock signal accessing information on m-bit units of data to be ignored when being transferred on a parallel bus; generating a second clock signal of variable rate based on the first clock signal and upon the information on the units of data that are to be ignored; generating one or more first control signals based on the first clock signal and upon the data on units of data that are to be ignored; loading data from the serial data bus into one or more m-bit wide data sections of an N section wide latch according to the first clock signal based on the first control signals, wherein redundant entries are entered for units of data to be ignored; and transferring out N m-bit wide units of data from the latch to the parallel bus according to the second clock signal.