US Patent 7339982 Modular, jitter-tolerant data acquisition and processing systems

Modular, jitter-tolerant, data acquisition and processing systems are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment comprises a receiving portion having a first module configured to receive a serial bit stream and recover a serial data stream and a first clocking signal from the serial bit stream. The receiving portion also comprises a second module configured to receive the serial data stream and the first clocking signal and generate a parallel data stream and a second clocking signal.