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13 years ago

Why K28.5 is more frequent to be used among the 12 control character in 8b/10b

Hi, in 8b/10b encoding scheme, why the control character K28.5 is more frequent to be used among the 12 control character. What is the advantage of K28.5 among all? why the protocol will c...
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13 years ago

It really is just speculation on my part about why that particular character is used.

If K28.1 was followed by a word with 1 in the next position, it wouldn't necessarily be high for just one bit period. For example ...1 1001111100 wouldn't give you the 010 pattern you're looking for.