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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2014
Applicant:
Inphi Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Parmanand Mishra, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Michael S. Harwood, Rushden, GB;
Assignee:
Inphi Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/38 (2006.01); H04L 25/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 25/063 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to integrated circuits. In a specific embodiment, high frequency signals from an equalizer are directly connected to a first pair of inputs of a sense amplifier. The sense amplifier also has a second pair of inputs, which can be selectively coupled to output signals from a DAC or high frequency loopback signals. There are other embodiments as well.