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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2008
Filed:
May. 07, 2004
Hou-wei Lin, Taipei, TW;
Shieh-hsing Kuo, Taipei, TW;
Yi-lin LI, Kao-Hsiung, TW;
Kuang-yu Yen, Tai-Chung, TW;
Hou-Wei Lin, Taipei, TW;
Shieh-Hsing Kuo, Taipei, TW;
Yi-Lin Li, Kao-Hsiung, TW;
Kuang-Yu Yen, Tai-Chung, TW;
Realtek Semiconductor Corp., Science Park, HsinChu, TW;
Abstract
A signal processing device for processing a passband signal to generate an equalized signal includes a passband adaptive equalizer for generating the equalized signal according to the passband signal, including at least one feed-forward equalizer (FFE) and one feedback equalizer (FBE), and a multilevel quantizer coupled with the passband adaptive equalizer for selectively utilizing a single predetermined threshold or a plurality of multiple predetermined thresholds to quantize the equalized signal in order to generate a sliced signal.