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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1998
Kyongsoo Michael Jung, Fremont, CA (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A physical layer transceiver of a home network station connected to a telephone medium has an architecture enabling adaptation of detection circuitry based on received network signals to enable reliable recovery of data signals. The physical layer transceiver includes an input amplifier that amplifies network signals according to one of 128 gain settings set by a receiver gain control signal. A signal conditioning circuit includes an envelope detector configured for outputting an envelope of the amplified received signal, and an energy detector configured for outputting an energy signal of the amplified received signals. The envelope signal and the energy signal are supplied to slicer threshold circuits, configured for outputting noise, peak, data event and energy event signals based on noise threshold, peak threshold, data transition threshold, and energy threshold signals, respectively. A digital controller controls the input amplifier gain and the threshold values, and adjusts the gain and threshold values based on the noise event signal and the peak event signal within an access ID (AID) interval. A link controller monitors the number of CRC errors in the received data packets on a per-node basis. If one transmitting station is detected as having a number of errors exceeding a first threshold, the link controller causes a reconfigure command to be output to the identified transmitting station, causing the identified transmitting station to adjust transmission parameters for improved reception reliability. The use of the reconfigure command by a receiving network node enables transmission parameters to be adjusted in selected network stations encountering severe distortion due to the topology of the home network. Alternately, the receiving network node may output an AID command packet with new power and speed settings to all transmitting network stations on the network.