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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2000
Charles F. Neugebauer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
William D. Elliott, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Deckys, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Thomas M. Annau, San Francisco, CA (US);
STMicroelectronics, Inc., Carrollton, TX (US);
Abstract
A system includes a signal reconstruction controller ( ) electrically coupled to at least one analog-to-digital converter (ADC) ( ) and to a phase adjustable clock source ( ). A sampling clock signal ( ) is electrically coupled from the clock source ( ) to the at least one ADC ( ). The at least one ADC ( ) samples an electronic signal according to the sampling clock signal ( ) to provide a digital representation of the electronic signal. The controller ( ) samples data from the ADC ( ) at different sampling points in the electronic signal and determines the edges ( ) of the electronic signal and the noisy samples ( ) that are away from the edges ( ) of the electronic signal. By finding the least noisy sample ( ) that is away from the edges ( ) of the electronic signal the controller ( ) adjusts the phase of a sampling signal clock ( ) to a sampling point that is the most reliable to sample the electronic signal to provide a digital representation thereof.