Scintera Networks, Inc.

Fabian Giroud

Debanjan Mukherjee

Qian Yu

Jishnu Bhattacharjee

Abhijit M Phanse

Abhijit G Shanbhag

Venugopal Balasubramonian

Edem Ibragimov

Prashant Choudhary

Venu Balasubramonian

Jishnu Bhatacharjee

An apparatus and method for adaptively introducing a compensating signal latency related to a signal latency of a data symbol decision circuit. Adaptive timing control circuitry, including an interpolating mixer implemented as a tapped delay line with correlated tap coefficients, introduces a latency adaptively and substantially matching the latency of the data decision circuit for use within an adaptive equalizer, thereby minimizing the mean-squared error of such decision circuit. This adaptive latency is used in generating the feedback error signal which, in turn, can be used by the feedforward equalizer for dynamically adjusting its adaptive filter tap coefficients.

Adaptive signal latency control for communications systems signals

A continuous time equalizer for equalizing an input signal using a feedforward equalizer portion and a feedback equalizer portion is provided that includes: a slicer operable to make bit decisions on a combined output from the feedforward and feedback equalizer portions; an adaptive delay circuit operable to delay the combined output to form a delayed output; and a controller operable to control the delay provided by the adaptive delay circuit such that a first group delay through the slicer and a second group delay through the adaptive delay circuit in response to a sinusoidal form of the input signal are substantially equal.

Accurate timing alignments for decision directed continuous time equalizers

An adaptive coefficient signal generator for use in an adaptive signal equalizer with fractionally-spaced feedback. The signals representing the feedback tap coefficients are generated in conjunction with a timing interpolation parameter such that the fractionally-spaced feedback circuitry dynamically emulates symbol-spaced feedback circuitry.

Adaptive coefficient signal generator for adaptive signal equalizers with fractionally-spaced feedback

A decision feedback equalizer with dynamic feedback control for use in an adaptive signal equalizer. Timing within the decision feedback loop is dynamically controlled to optimize recovery of the data signal by the output signal slicer. The dynamic timing is controlled by a signal formed as a combination of feedback and feedforward signals. The feedback signal is an error signal related to a difference between pre-slicer and post-slicer signals. The feedforward signal is formed by differentiating and delaying the incoming data signal.

Decision feedback equalizer with dynamic feedback control

Tap coefficients for fractionally-spaced equalizers are updated iteratively using error statistics from an input bit stream and an output bit stream, such as from a forward error correction circuit. The process continues until the errors converge to a sufficiently small number. Knowledge of the error patterns are used apriori to adaptively change the tap coefficients in a feedforward filter.

Adaptation structure and methods for analog continuous time equalizers

Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide reference generators. For example, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a reference generator is provided for an electrical device, such as for example for an analog-to-digital converter. The reference generator may provide one or more reference signals having a common mode voltage that can track or be varied based on a common mode voltage of an input signal. Alternatively or in addition, the reference generator may provide reference signals for single-ended applications.

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