Self-synchronizing scrambler

Claim 1

A self-synchronizing scrambler comprising n parallel scrambler stages each comprising a first modulo-2 adder and a second modulo-2 adder connected in series and a clock shift register stage, including n parallel inputs for respective ones of n bits arriving in parallel of a digital signal to be scrambled, the inputs being ordered corresponding to the sequence of the incoming bits with the n th bit applied to the first input and the following bits applied in succession to the remaining inputs in each scrambler stage, one input of the second modulo-2 adder representing the signal input and the output of the second modulo-2 adder representing the signal output, characterized in that, for the generation of the scrambled signal having a scrambler period of 2 n -1 bit, one shift register stage is provided in each scrambler stage and therefore n shift register stages are provided in total; in that the output of the shift register stage (SR) is connected to the first input of the first modulo-2 adder (A1) and its output connected to the first input of the second modulo-2 adder (A2); in that the second input of the second modulo-2 adder (A2) is connected to the assigned input for the digital signal; in that the output of the second modulo-2 adder (A2) is connected to the input of the shift register stage (SR) contained in the same scrambler stage; in that the second input of the first modulo-2 adder (A1) of the one scrambler stage is connected to the output of the shift register stage of the scrambler stage for the m th bit in all scrambler stages up to the (n-m+1) th scrambler stage; in that m is smaller than n and is a whole number; in that, in the (n-m) th scrambler stage the connection from the second input of the first modulo-2 adder is to the input of the shift register stage of the n th scrambler stage and, correspondingly, from the (n-m-1) th scrambler stage to the (n-1) th scrambler stage; in that the individual bits of the scrambled digital signals can be optionally taken at the inputs or at the outputs of the shift register stages; and in that the clock inputs of the shift register stages are connected to a source for a clock signal whose frequency is the 1/7-fold portion of the bit clock frequency of the digital signal.