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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2024
Korea University Research and Business Foundation, Seoul, KR;
Chulwoo Kim, Seoul, KR;
Hyo Shin Kang, Seoul, KR;
Yoon Jae Choi, Seoul, KR;
Hwaseok Shin, Seoul, KR;
Chang-Min Sim, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed is a decision feedback equalizer, which includes a summator that receives a gray code-based PAM-4 signal, a first bit signal, and a second bit signal, and outputs an input voltage obtained by adding a preset coefficient to a voltage level of the PAM-4 signal in response to the first bit signal and the second bit signal, and a decoder that receives the input voltage and first to third reference voltages of the PAM-4 signal and outputs the first bit signal and the second bit signal, and the decoder includes a first comparator that outputs the first bit signal by comparing a magnitude of the input voltage with a magnitude of the first reference voltage, and a second comparator that outputs the second bit signal by comparing charge-discharge intensities of the input voltage and the second and third reference voltages.