Re: Question Regarding De-Skewing in Clause 48 (D2.0)
Steven,
The purpose of state BYTE_SLIP_WAIT is to ignore the column following a
byte-shift deskew error. The reason is that it is likely that the
following column also contains a deskew error and that counting it can
be considered "double counting".
Re-entering ALIGN_ACQUIRED_1 requires the recognition of good ||A||.
Best Regards,
Rich
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Steven Shen wrote:
>
> Hi :
>
> If at state "BYTE_SLIP_WAIT" and next receive a good ||A|| column, it will
> go to state "ALIGN_ACQUIRED_2" according to the current state machine
> in D2.0, (should it go to state "ALIGN_ACQUIRED_1" in this case ??)
>
> best regards
> Steven Shen
> Silicon Bridge Inc.
>
> Rich Taborek wrote:
>
> > Boaz,
> >
> > Answers below:
> >
> > Boaz Shahar wrote:
> > >
> > > Rich,
> > > Something in "PCS de-skew state diagram" is not entirely understood:
> > >
> > > When the machine transients from "ALIGN_ACQUIRED_1" to "ALIGN_ACQUIRED_2" it
> > > goes to the state "BYTE_SLIP_WAIT" where it waits for one additional byte to
> > > be received.
> > >
> > > 1) What is the motivation? Is it to prevent a split ||A|| column to be
> > > counted as two errors instead of just one?
> >
> > Yes. This is exactly the case.
> >
> > > 2) Why the machine does not transient through similar state while changing
> > > states, for instance, from "ALIGN_ACQUIRED_2" to "ALIGN_ACQUIRED_3"
> >
> > It should. Don Alderrou of nSerial is submitting a comment to this
> > effect.
> >
> > > Thx. for your help,
> > > Boaz
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