Patent ID: 8429484

Claim:
A real time radar data transmission system comprising: a plurality of parallel communication channels, each channel having a plurality of serially associated directional transmission elements and having one or more inputs for receiving forward error correctable data and one or more outputs for transmitting forward error correctable data; wherein at least one of the plurality of the directional transmission elements receives the forward error correctable data and corrects the data in error; and transmits the forward error correctable data to a serially associated directional transmission element; and wherein the data from the last of the plurality of serially associated directional transmission elements provides input to a hardware processor configured to execute instructions to utilize the forward error correctable data in a radar application; and wherein when an error in the data is detected a first process compares to a threshold the total number of error corrections made or attempted during a transmission of arbitrary length, and if the number of representing error corrections exceeds the threshold said first process generates a signal for resynchronizing transmission of data in real time.