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Re: Hari Byte vs. Word striping




Richard,

Could I ask you to describe how you see these advantages and
disadvantages?   Some features of these schemes seem to have 
been imperfectly communicated.  I would very much appreciate
understanding how you see the issues.  

The complication of the byte striped version's deskew function 
frankly looks like a very large ASIC design risk factor to me.
I know there are other issues to be tackled, but we might be
paying for a wrong choice here for a long time.

Regards,
Mike

> 
> Now that the dust has settled a bit, I would like to declare the match a
> draw (at least from our point of view).  It seems that both sides have some
> advantages and disadvantages, but as a serdes vendor we don't see any
> knockout punch. There are other more difficult problems to be solved.
> 
> With that in mind, it seems like there is no compelling reason to change
> from the original byte striped proposal.
> 
> - Regards,
> 
> Richard Dugan
> Agilent Technologies

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