Technologies That Use 8b/10b
After the above mentioned IBM patent expired, the scheme became even more popular and is the default DC-free line code for new standards.
Among the areas in which 8b/10b encoding finds application are
- PCI Express versions prior to 3.0
- IEEE 1394b
- Serial ATA
- SAS
- Fibre Channel
- SSA
- Gigabit Ethernet (except for the twisted pair based 1000Base-T)
- InfiniBand
- XAUI
- Serial RapidIO
- DVB Asynchronous Serial Interface (ASI)
- DisplayPort Main Link
- DVI and HDMI Video Island (Transition Minimized Differential Signaling)
- HyperTransport
- Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI)
- USB 3.0
Read more about this topic: 8b/10b Encoding