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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2007
Abhijit G. Shanbhag, San Jose, CA (US);
Abhijit Phanse, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jishnu Bhattacharjee, San Jose, CA (US);
Debanjan Mukherjee, San Jose, CA (US);
Prashant Choudhary, San Jose, CA (US);
Edem Ibragimov, San Jose, CA (US);
Venugopal Balasubramonian, San Jose, CA (US);
Qian Yu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Madabusi Govindarajan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abhijit G. Shanbhag, San Jose, CA (US);
Abhijit Phanse, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jishnu Bhattacharjee, San Jose, CA (US);
Debanjan Mukherjee, San Jose, CA (US);
Prashant Choudhary, San Jose, CA (US);
Edem Ibragimov, San Jose, CA (US);
Venugopal Balasubramonian, San Jose, CA (US);
Qian Yu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Madabusi Govindarajan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
INPHI Corporation, Westlake Village, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed to provide channel monitoring and/or performance monitoring for a communication channel. For example, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an equalizer is disclosed that equalizes for channel distortions and also provides channel and performance monitoring information, such as for example bandwidth estimation, channel identification, signal-to-noise ratio, chromatic dispersion, and/or polarization-mode dispersion.