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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2013
Applicant:
Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
MAXIM INTEGRATED PRODUCTS, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 1/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 1/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
A receiver for a power line communication (PLC) device includes an analog front end configured to receive an input signal from a power line. The input signal includes symbols and wherein each of the symbols includes samples. A demodulator module is configured to demodulate the input signal to generate a demodulated signal. The demodulator module includes an impulse noise module configured to detect and remove impulse noise in the symbols of the input signal.