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Abstract

An improved transceiver pair that are tightly integrated into a computer system. The transceiver pair include a base transceiver and a remote transceiver, with a high speed serial connection between them. The base transceiver has a base transmitter with a parallel input port for accepting parallel, encoded data and a serial output port for transmitting a serial, encoded data stream. The remote transceiver has a receiver with a serial input port for receiving the serial, encoded data stream and an audio/video output port for passing deserialized data to an audio and video control unit after decoding. The high speed serial connection links the base serial output port to the remote serial input port. The remote receiver further includes a feedback input port adapted for receiving feedback data forwarded from a sensor. The sensor may respond to palpable, optical or sonic input or to physical contact. The computer system may include the remote transceiver for transmitting a return serial data stream, a transmitter operably coupled between the feedback input port and the remote serial output port, and a timing generator coupled to recover a clock signal from the serial data stream and to synchronize the deserialized data. The base transceiver may also include a serial input port for receiving the return serial data stream, a receiver operably coupled to the serial input port, and a return high speed serial connection between the remote serial output port and the base serial input port. The return serial data stream is received concurrent with the serial data stream being received.

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