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It's not intended to save gates but time. Bits are (were) serially encoded on the wire, so you could start switching sooner, before even having received the who
by bestouff 7y ago
It's not intended to save gates but time. Bits are (were) serially encoded on the wire, so you could start switching sooner, before even having received the whole header.
- baybal2 7y agoI understand the rationale, but all that hardware today will probably get more bits on input in a single clock cycle than at the time this was a concern. Today, you have to process way way more bytes in a single clock cycle anyways. Internally, for a chip designer, almost all modern high speed serial busses look way wider than a single byte. And all of its serialness is kept inside the transmitter/serdes/interface blocks without any external exposure.