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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017

Filed:

Jul. 03, 2013
Applicant:

Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Lizhi Zhong, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Vishnu Balan, Saratoga, CA (US);

Gautam Bhatia, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/00 (2006.01); H04L 25/03 (2006.01); H04L 7/033 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/0087 (2013.01); H04L 7/0058 (2013.01); H04L 25/03057 (2013.01); H04L 7/0025 (2013.01); H04L 7/033 (2013.01); H04L 2025/03484 (2013.01); H04L 2025/03605 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method comprises receiving an input signal at an input of a receiver and retrieving a data sample signal and an error sample signal from the input signal. The method also comprises applying an adaptive procedure to generate a feedback code using the data sample signal and the error sample signal for feeding back into a decision feedback equalization (DFE) module. Further, it comprises converting the feedback code into a corresponding voltage value and assigning the corresponding voltage value as a tap weight for the DFE module. Finally, it comprises generating an edge sample signal by applying DFE to the input signal using the DFE module, wherein the DFE is based on the tap weight.


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