A digital communications system includes a transmitting section that receives electrical signals in parallel and transmits them serially by means of an optic fiber (10) to a receiving section (11). A sampler/filter (20) samples the incoming electrical signals at a rate several times that of the maximum...http://www.google.de/patents/US5018142?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5018142 - Technique for organizing and coding serial binary data from a plurality of data lines for transmission over a single transmission line
