Abstract: A cell disassemble circuit in a cell receiver system detects the number of lost cells from information for detecting cell loss included in received cells, and separates a payload from a header in each of the received cells. The number of lost cells indicates the number of cells lost on a transmission path from the transmission side to the cell receiver system. A buffer stores the number of detected lost cells and data inserted in the payloads. A phase locked loop recovers a source clock corresponding to the rate of fixed rate information based on a use level of the buffer. A counter circuit generates a clock for reading data from the first buffer from the recovered source clock. Also, the counter circuit stops outputting the read clock to the buffer for a time period corresponding to the number of lost cells.

Abstract: A cell receiver includes, in addition to a cell decomposing unit, an interleaving memory, an error correcting unit, a FIFO memory, and a delay fluctuation absorption control unit, a delay fluctuation absorption buffer for absorbing delay fluctuation of a received cell, and a buffer control unit for controlling a read operation of a cell from the delay fluctuation absorption buffer. Since the delay fluctuation of a received cell is absorbed by the delay fluctuation absorption buffer, the number of memories necessary for interleaving can by reduced to two memories.