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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Big Bear Networks, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03H 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03H 1/500 ;
Abstract
Method and system for a programmable analog tapped delay line filter are disclosed. One embodiment of the present invention is a programmable analog tapped delay line filter comprising an input line, an output line, and one or more gaincells or taps coupled between the input line and the output line. The input and output lines each comprises a cascade of one or more differential delay cells, and each of the one or more gaincells or taps corresponds to a tap weight or coefficient. Furthermore, the input and output lines are terminated in impedances and the filter produces one or more outputs.