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Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 09, 2018
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Bo Sun, Carlsbad, CA (US);

Daniel Butterfield, Encinitas, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 25/03 (2006.01); H03K 5/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 25/03828 (2013.01); H03K 5/24 (2013.01);
Abstract

One feature pertains to an apparatus that includes a first stage track and hold circuit that subsamples a receive equalizer output of a receive equalizer, and a second stage track and hold circuit that generates a first signal representative of an average voltage value of a logical value at the receive equalizer output when a high frequency bit pattern is detected, and a second signal representative of an average voltage value of the logical value at the receive equalizer output when a steady state bit pattern is detected. The apparatus further includes a comparator circuit that generates a comparator output signal that indicates which of the first signal and the second signal has a greater magnitude, and a processing circuit that generates equalizer tuning signals based on the comparator output signal to adjust parameters of an equalizer that affects the receive equalizer output.


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