A method and system for cycle slip framing is disclosed. The method
includes receiving an asynchronous signal and generating a synchronous
pulse after receiving the asynchronous signal. The method further
provides that the synchronous pulse be used to affect a bit slip that
results in the moving of a character frame in the recovered data of a
deserializer. According to one embodiment of the invention, the moving of
the character frame is prompted by a single control signal of a clock
divider circuit which causes the removal of a single clock cycle of a
clock signal supplied to said deserializer.