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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2005
Apu Sivadas, Burlington, CA;
Atul Krishna Gupta, Mississauga, CA;
Kenneth Steven Lazaris-brunner, Burlington, CA;
Vasilis Papanikolaou, Toronto, CA;
Rajiv Kumar Shukla, Burlington, CA;
Bharat Tailor, Cambridge, CA;
Apu Sivadas, Burlington, CA;
Atul Krishna Gupta, Mississauga, CA;
Kenneth Steven Lazaris-Brunner, Burlington, CA;
Vasilis Papanikolaou, Toronto, CA;
Rajiv Kumar Shukla, Burlington, CA;
Bharat Tailor, Cambridge, CA;
Gennum Corporation, , CA;
Abstract
Transmit amplitude independent adaptive equalizers are provided that compensate for transmission losses in an input signal when the transmit signal amplitude is unknown. Several embodiments are provided, including a first embodiment having an equalizer core, a controllable-swing slicer and an amplitude control loop, a second embodiment having an equalizer core, a fixed-swing slicer and a control loop, a third embodiment having an equalizer core, a variable gain amplifier, and a variable gain amplifier control loop, and a fourth embodiment having an equalizer core, a fixed-swing slicer, a variable gain amplifier, and a variable gain amplifier control loop.