Patent 7498965 was granted and assigned to Analog Devices on March, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A high speed transmission system includes at least one transmitter; a buffer circuit for assembling into a data packet in parallel a number of sample conversion words from said transmitter; a marker circuit for adding a marker word to said data packet for framing said data packet; and a serializer circuit for serializing said data packet either before or after said marker word is added, with an embedded clock for transmission.