Switching arrangement with automatic data alignment over a + 3.5-bit range

Abstract From the Canadian patent

PHF. 83 584 10, ABSTRACT:, An arrangement ensuring the change-over of two channels (1, 2) through which the same digital information is conveyed with automatic data alignment over a ? 3.5 bit range comprises for each channel an array of buffer stores operating at a write rate Hi/Ni (where i = 1, 2), an oscillator operating at a rate H which provides reading of the buffer stores at the rate H/N and being synchronized in phase-opposition with one or the other of the write rates, and a logic comparator controlling the write rates Hi/Ni, the routing of the write rates to the input of the oscillator as well as a, change-over switch for the data. In the buffer store of the channel 2 assumed to be …