METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING PARALLEL DATA TO SERIAL DATA IN HIGH SPEED APPLICATIONS

摘要

A method and apparatus to convert parallel data to serial data. More specifically, there is provided a parallel-to-serial converter (52) comprising a data pipeline (62) configured to receive parallel data (d0, d4, d2, d6, dl, d5, d3, d7), and binary sort logic (64) comprising a plurality of switches (70) arranged to receive the parallel data (d0, d4, d2, d6, dl, d5, d3, d7) from the data pipeline (62), and configured to output the parallel data (d0, d4, 62, d6, dl, d5, 63, d7) serially.