Patent ID: 8514955

Claim:
A communication system comprising: a data transmitter including: a transmitter cyclic pattern generating circuit that generates a transmitter cyclic pattern having a pattern length of N bits and converts the transmitter cyclic pattern into a M-bit transmitter parallel data stream, where each of N and M is an integer larger than one and N and M are different with each other; a transmitter bit-sequence altering circuit that alters a sequence of bits in each word of the transmitter parallel data stream by performing a transmitter altering process including replacing specified ones of the bits in each word of the transmitter parallel data stream with each other so that a bit-sequence altered transmitter parallel data stream is generated; and a serializer that converts the bit-sequence altered transmitter parallel data stream into a serial data in synchronous with a clock signal and transmits the serial data together with the clock signal; and a data receiver including: a de-serializer that receives the serial data and the clock signal, and converts the serial data into a M-bit receiver parallel data stream in synchronous with the clock signal; a receiver bit-sequence altering circuit that alters a sequence of bits in each word of the receiver parallel data stream by performing a receiver altering process opposite to the transmitter altering process so that a bit-sequence restored parallel data stream is generated; a receiver cyclic pattern generating circuit having the same construction as the transmitter cyclic pattern generating circuit, the receiver cyclic pattern generating circuit generates a reference cyclic pattern by using bits in the bit-sequence restored parallel data stream as initial values and converts the reference cyclic pattern into a M-bit reference parallel data stream; and a comparing and checking circuit that compares one of (i) the receiver parallel data stream with a bit-sequence altered reference parallel data stream, and (ii) the bit-sequence restored parallel data stream with the reference parallel data stream, and generates a bit-error detection signal when the serial data is not received correctly, wherein when the comparing and checking circuit compares the receiver parallel data stream with the bit-sequence altered reference parallel data stream, the data receiver further includes a second bit-sequence altering circuit that alters a sequence of bits in each word of the reference parallel data stream by performing a second altering process same as the transmitter altering process so that the bit-sequence altered reference parallel data stream is generated.