Excerpt: Identifying Character Boundaries by Knut Grimsrud and Hubbert Smith
Excerpt Description This excerpt describes the role of the ALIGN primitive in detecting the character boundaries in the serial bit stream. The ALIGN primitive not only identifies the character boundaries, but also serves an essential function in compensating for subtle frequency mismatches between transmitter and receiver without with oversampling receiver designs would be intractable. Finally, the role ALIGN serves in accommodating spread spectrum clocking is covered.
