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Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014

Filed:

Jan. 21, 2013
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventor:

Subratakumar Mandal, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/16 (2006.01); H03H 7/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03H 7/38 (2013.01);
Abstract

An embodiment of the invention includes dynamically adjusting gain peaking of circuit logic such that error rates are acceptable across various process/voltage/temperature (PVT) ranges. An embodiment uses PVT dependant programming, such as but not limited to resistance compensation (RCOMP) codes, to control impedance compensation logic, such as but not limited to a Continuous Time Linear Equalization (CTLE) circuit. The PVT programming may be used to control gain peaking amplitude and gain peaking frequency across ranges of different PVTs. As a result, error performance is not impaired across different PVT corners and gain peaking is more consistent across different PVT corners. Other embodiments are included herein.


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