VELOCITYTM
VITESSE
SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
10-Bit Transceiver for Fibre
Channel and Gigabit Ethernet
Figure 2: Detection of a Properly Aligned Comma Character
Data Sheet
VSC7123
RCLK
RCLKN
COMDET
R(0:9)
K28.5 TChar TChar TChar
TChar: 10-bit transmission character
RCLK
RCLKN
COMDET
Figure 3: Detection
Receiving Two Consecutive K28.5+TChar Transmission Words
Clock Stretching
R(0:9)
Potentially Corrupted
K28.5 TChar TChar TChar K28.5 TChar
TChar: 10-bit transmission character
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G52212-0, Rev 4.3
03/25/01