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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2014
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
TEXAS INTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03H 7/30 (2006.01); H04L 25/03 (2006.01); H04L 25/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 25/03885 (2013.01); H04L 25/03834 (2013.01); H04L 25/0272 (2013.01); H04L 25/0286 (2013.01); H04L 25/03343 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus comprises a differential equalizer having: a) a first differential input, b) a second differential input, c) a first differential output, and d) a second differential output; a frequency detector coupled to the first and second differential inputs; an amplifier coupled to a first differential output and a second differential output of the differential equalizer; and a logical combiner having a first input coupled to an output of the frequency detector and an output coupled to a control input of the amplifier, wherein the logical combiner can mask at least one received de-emphasis parameter.