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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1997
Andrew L Norrell, Nevada City, CA (US);
Dale M Walsh, Golf, IL (US);
3Com Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for adaptively equalizing a signal received from a remote transmitter. The equalizer includes a filter having an output and a decision circuit coupled to the filter output. In addition, the equalizer has a reference coupled to the decision circuit. The reference includes a model of a non-linear characteristic of a remote transmitter. The method relates to adaptively equalizing a signal received from a remote transmitter. The method includes the step of receiving a signal corresponding to a predetermined reference level from the remote transmitter. Next, the received signal level is filtered to remove linear error terms. The next step of the method includes measuring a non-linear error term associated with the received and filtered signal. The measured non-linear error term may then be stored and used to make improved decisions on data signals transmitted from the remote transmitter.