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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
May. 30, 2014
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sitaraman V. Iyer, San Jose, CA (US);
Fulvio Spagna, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 25/03 (2006.01); H04L 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 25/03949 (2013.01); H04L 7/0062 (2013.01); H04L 25/03146 (2013.01);
Abstract
Described is an apparatus which comprises: a Decision Feedback Equalizer (DFE); and a phase detector, operationally coupled to the DFE, to set a sampling phase based on a first post-cursor value of a composite pulse response being substantially equal to zero when the phase detector collects data bits having current bit and next bit such that value of the current bit is unequal to a value of the next bit.