Coding for tolerance and detection of skew in parallel asynchronous communications

Abstract

We provide a new definition for the concept of skew in parallel asynchronous communications introduced in [2]. The new definition extends and strengthens previously known results on skew. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for codes that can tolerate a certain amount of skew under the new definition. We also extend the results to codes that can tolerate a certain amount of skew and detect a larger amount of skew when the tolerating threshold is exceeded.