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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 1998
Filed:
May. 11, 1995
Mark Davis, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Long Huynh, San Diego, CA (US);
Hughes Electronics, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for jointly determining initial tap coefficients for a maximum likelihood sequence estimating equalizer and a timing error of an incoming signal, in one embodiment, receives the incoming signal into a receiver, and locates a known portion within a time frame of the incoming signal. The known portion is compared with a stored representation of the known portion, and with a stored representation of a derivative of the known portion. The initial tap coefficients and timing error of the incoming signal are jointly determined based on the comparing of the known portion with the stored representations, and a subsequent known portion is located within a subsequent time frame of the incoming signal based on the timing error. The initial tap coefficients are passed to a maximum likelihood sequence estimating equalizer.