Re: Interface reality check
> Agreed. Cool! 8B/10B plug: 8B/10B supports the detection of poor
> signal quality on a link regardless of the information being
> transported. In fact simple receiver circuitry can determine the BER
> at the decoder in real time. Try that with a scrambled code ;_)
64b/66b also supports the measurement of bit error rate by looking at
master transition violations regardless of the information being
transmitted.
You are right, however, in that 64b/66b is not a pure scrambled code,
but one augmented by periodic frame sync bits.
Best regards,
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Rick Walker