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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1999
Ahmad Reza Bahai, Lafayette, CA (US);
Kumud Kumar Sanwal, Iselin, NJ (US);
National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for adaptively equalizing an output of a digital communication channel, including steps of: generating an initial channel estimation; determining an initial set of metric states of a trellis, based on known symbols of a received input signal comprising a sequence of symbols; updating the set of metric states according to the initial channel estimation and the received signal; updating a set of paths for the metric states using a delayed tentative decision of a symbol of the received signal, to determine a set of survivor paths; and updating the channel estimation, based on the updated metrics, delayed tentative decision, and the received signal.