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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1998
Colin Nayler, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Phil Keller, Fremont, CA (US);
Oikwan Tsang, San Jose, CA (US);
Hung Vo, San Jose, CA (US);
Dennis Lau, Fremont, CA (US);
Yi Cheng, San Jose, CA (US);
Boon-Aik Ang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Zhen-Hua Liu, Sunnyvale, 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. Hence, the receiver can be optimized on a per-packet basis for receiving network signals by adjusting the receiver portion during the AID preamble phase of the data packet. Gain control may also be used by the digital controller on the transmitter portion to selectively adjust the output gain for optimizing transmission to a destination home network station.