Patent ID: 7936793

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving data on a plurality of serial data channels and a framing signal on a framing channel that is physically distinct from the plurality of serial data channels, wherein the framing signal and the data are each generated by a transmitter, and wherein the framing signal is an asynchronous signal that indicates a frame boundary; initially determining a plurality of offset values in a correlation mode, each offset value indicating the amount of skew observed between the framing channel and one of the plurality of serial data channels; after exiting the correlation mode, storing the data received on each of the plurality of serial data channels in at least one buffer; monitoring the framing signal received from the transmitter on the framing channel to identify the frame boundary; and extracting parallel data from the at least one buffer, wherein the location of the parallel data within the at least one buffer is identified by the frame boundary in combination with at least one of the plurality of offset values initially determined in the correlation mode.