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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2004
Applicant:
Richard S. Ballantyne, Stittsville, CA;
Inventor:
Richard S. Ballantyne, Stittsville, CA;
Assignee:
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A circuit for optimizing the transmission of data on a communication channel is disclosed. According to one embodiment of the invention, a circuit comprises a transmitter circuit having a programmable output characteristic and being coupled to a transmission media. The transmission media receives serial data from the transmitter circuit and couples the data to a receiver circuit by way of the transmission media. A signal quality monitor associated with the receiver circuit generates received signal quality data. Finally, a feedback path couples the received signal quality data to the transmitter circuit.