4B6B coding scheme

• Main Author: WALKER, CHRISTOPHER PAUL HULME
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 22.01.2003
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY; CODE CONVERSION IN GENERAL; CODING; DECODING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; MULTIPLEX COMMUNICATION; TRANSMISSION; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

An encoding scheme relies on a d.c. balanced code wherein each message to be transmitted is sent as a plurality of symbols, each symbol having six bits, three ones and three zeros. Out of the twenty combinations of balanced six-bit codes, two codes are reserved to operate as control tokens, being 01...