Abstract: An integrated circuit for receiving and recovering an incoming electrical signal of a digital data bit stream transmitted over a communication channel, and comprising an equaliser circuit adapted to reshape the electrical signal to be provided to, a CDR circuit adapted to receive the reshaped electrical signal and to recover data bit signal of the digital bit stream and to recover a clock signal encoded or embedded in the digital data stream.

Abstract: According one embodiment, an apparatus and method are disclosed for a dynamic phase aligning input interface. In the embodiment, a first device provides data to a second device. According to the embodiment, the interface is counter clocked, the second device being clocked by a first clock signal and providing a second clock signal source to the first device for clocking the data. The first device transmits the second clock signal and the data to the second device, with the second clock signal being delayed by the period of time required for the second clock signal source to propagate through the first device. The second device detects the phase of the first clock signal and the second clock signal and modifies the phase of the second clock signal source to align the phase of the first clock signal and the phase of the second clock signal.