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7623797 Compensating impairments of optical channel using adaptive equalization  
An embodiment of the invention is a technique to equalize received samples. An optical to electrical converter (OEC) produces an electrical signal vector representing at least one of amplitude,...
7623600 High speed receive equalizer architecture  
Equalization is provided in a high speed communication receiver that includes in various aspects an automatic gain control input stage, a decision feedback equalizer, a clock and data recovery...
7623570 Multi sub-carrier communication system and method providing improved frequency equalization performance  
There is provided a multi sub-carrier communication system for providing improved performance of a frequency equalizer and a method thereof. The multi sub-carrier communication system includes a...
7620101 Equalizer circuit, communication system, and method that is adaptive to varying launch amplitudes for reducing receiver error  
A transmission line equalizer, communication system, and method are provided for adaptively compensating for changes in transmission path length and transmission path medium. Within the equalizer...
7620100 Method and apparatus for equalization of a signal which is transmitted via a user channel using the DF method, and taking into account an interference channel  
In a method for equalization of a signal that is transmitted via a user channel using the DF method, an interference channel is taken into account by the DF contribution that is used for processing...
7620096 Equal BER power control for uplink MC-CDMA with MMSE successive interference cancellation  
For a given decision order, MMSE successive interference cancellation (MMSE-SIC) can simultaneously maximize SIRs of all users. To further increase its efficiency, a power control (PC) algorithm,...
7616700 Method and system for slicing a communication signal  
A slicer can receive a communication signal having a level or amplitude that is between two discrete levels of a multilevel digital communication scheme. The slicer can compare the communication...
7616699 Method of soft bit metric calculation with direct matrix inversion MIMO detection  
A telecommunication MIMO receiver implements soft bit metric calculation with direct matrix inversion MIMO detection. The receiver has a detector that detects data symbols in a received signal by...
7616686 Method and apparatus for generating one or more clock signals for a decision-feedback equalizer using DFE detected data  
Methods and apparatus are provided for generating one or more clock signals for a decision-feedback equalizer using DFE detected data. A received signal is sampled using a data clock and a...
7613238 Apparatus and method for decision error compensation in an adaptive equalizer  
An adaptive equalizer comprises: a forward equalizer (FE) receiving a symbol stream to generate an FE output; a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) receiving a decision symbol stream to generate a...
7606302 Method and apparatus for non-linear decision-feedback equalization in the presence of asymmetric channel  
Methods and apparatus are provided for determining the threshold position of one or more latches employed for decision-feedback equalization in the presence of a non-linear channel. A latch...
7606301 Method and apparatus for adaptively establishing a sampling phase for decision-feedback equalization  
Methods and apparatus are provided for adaptively establishing the optimal sampling phase offset for a DFE operation. According to one aspect of the invention, one or more values in an amplitude...
7606293 Bidirectional turbo ISI canceller-based DSSS receiver for high-speed wireless LAN  
A bidirectional turbo ISI canceller cancels precursor-ISI as well as postcursor-ISI in a received signal without incorporating a multiplicative feedforward equalization filter. This is accomplished...
7599461 Method and apparatus for generating one or more clock signals for a decision-feedback equalizer using DFE detected data in the presence of an adverse pattern  
Methods and apparatus are provided for generating one or more clock signals for a decision-feedback equalizer using DFE detected data, in the presence of an adverse pattern, such as a Nyquist...
7599433 Apparatus for and method of controlling a feedforward filter of an equalizer  
A method of controlling a feedforward filter of an equalizer includes the steps of generating a complex representation of an output of the feedforward filter and generating a representation of a...
7599431 Combined decision feedback equalization and linear equalization  
A communication system includes a transmitter, a communication channel, and a receiver. The transmitter includes a pre-emphasis module, a summing module, a line driver, and a decision feedback...
7596175 Methods and circuits for performing margining tests in the presence of a decision feedback equalizer  
Described are methods and circuits for margin testing receivers equipped with Decision Feedback Equalization (DFE) or other forms of feedback that employ historical data to reduce intersymbol...
7593483 Nonlinear mapping in digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters  
In a high-fidelity digital modulator, a mapper is provided to minimize quantization noise, jitter, and cross-talk between multiple digital-to-analog or analog-to-digital converters. The mapper...
7593456 Maximum likelihood block decision feedback estimation for CCK demodulation apparatus and method  
A maximum likelihood CCK detector has a first subtractor which subtracts the contents of a pre-equalize register from a current symbol, and the output of this subtractor is coupled to a simple Fast...
7590175 DFE margin test methods and circuits that decouple sample and feedback timing  
Described are methods and circuits for margin testing digital receivers. These methods and circuits prevent margins from collapsing in response to erroneously received data, and can thus be used in...
7590174 Signal adjustment receiver circuitry  
Systems and methods for adjusting a signal received from a communication path are disclosed. A receiver can receive a signal from a communication path which attenuates at least some frequency...
7586984 Finite-length equalization over multi-input multi-output (MIMO) channels  
A Multiple-Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Decision Feedback Equalizer improves operation of a receiver by canceling the spatio-temporal interference effects caused by the MIMO channel memory with a...
7586983 Systems and methods for offset cancellation in integrated transceivers  
In high speed receiver circuitry (e.g., on a programmable logic device (PLD) or the like), decision feedback equalization (DFE) circuitry is used to at least partly cancel unwanted offset (e.g.,...
7586982 Kalman filter based method and apparatus for linear equalization of CDMA downlink channels  
Disclosed is a minimum mean square error (MMSE) equalizer and method for single-user detection of a signal received from a downlink code-division multiple access CDMA channel. The equalizer...
7583770 Multiplex signal error correction method and device  
A method of reducing a phase error caused by a plurality of error sources in a signal in the form of a sequence of a plurality of digital partial signals associated with a number of subcarriers (k)...
7583728 Equalizers for layered modulated and other signals  
A method and apparatus for equalizing digital data signals is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of demodulating and decoding an input signal having input data to produce a data output,...
7580455 Decision feedback equalization with fractionally-spaced feedback data  
A decision feedback equalizer (DFE) architecture uses feedback samples that are over-sampled with respect to the symbol rate. On-baud feedback samples are quantized with a slicer, while off-baud...
7580454 Multidimensional decision-directed trained adaptive equalization  
An embodiment of the invention is a technique to equalize received samples. An equalizer to equalize a multidimensional signal transmitted over a communication channel and having a dimensionality...
7580453 Method and apparatus for equalization  
An exemplary embodiment of an adaptive equalizer is provided, receiving symbols to generate an equalizer output. The adaptive equalizer comprises a plurality of tap cells, a coefficient updater, a...
7580452 Dynamic comparator system  
A dynamic comparator system includes a dynamic comparator, a feedback filter, and a summer. The dynamic comparator is configured with a comparison signal having an initial state. The dynamic...
7577206 OFDM signal receiving apparatus and method for estimating common phase error of OFDM signals using data subcarriers  
An Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal receiving apparatus and method of estimating a common phase error (CPE) using data subcarriers (and pilot subcarriers) instead of only...
7577193 Adaptive equalizer  
Some embodiments of the invention include apparatus, systems, and methods to adjust a clock generator and an equalizer to reduce jitter in an output signal. A phase detector provides feedback...
7574146 Pattern-dependent error counts for use in correcting operational parameters in an optical receiver  
An optical transmission network includes an optical transmitter photonic integrated circuit (TxPIC) chip, utilized in an optical transmitter and has a plurality of monolithic modulated sources...
7570701 Multi-pair gigabit ethernet transceiver  
Various systems and methods providing high speed decoding, enhanced power reduction and clock domain partitioning for a multi-pair gigabit Ethernet transceiver are disclosed. ISI compensation is...
7567616 Feedback equalizer for a communications receiver  
A feedback equalizer is provided that minimizes the critical path time in a multi-level modulation receiver. The critical path is reduced by parallel operation of some summation components of the...
7567615 Adaptive equalization circuit and adaptive equalization method  
The present invention provides an adaptive equalization circuit and adaptive equalization method that can perform signal processing on a small scale with good computation accuracy, and can improve...
7564933 Method and system for near optimal iterative detection of the 2-dimensional ISI channel  
A method and system for decoding data received from a channel experiencing two-dimensional inter-symbol interference, as well as systems implementing such a decoding method and system, are...
7564899 Multistage tuning-tolerant equalizer filter  
A multistage equalizer filter for compensating a received distorted signal having an amplitude for frequency dependent signal modifications introduced by a transmission channel includes at least...
7561633 System and method for MIMO equalization for DSP transceivers  
A method to efficiently deal with FEXT crosstalk in wireline communication system via MIMO equalization is presented. A MIMO-DFE based receiver architecture is developed to demonstrate the...
7561619 Feedback filter  
Disclosed are a system, method and device for generating an equalized signal from an input signal. Symbols in the equalized signal may be detected on each of a sequence of symbol intervals to...
7561617 Channel monitoring and identification and performance monitoring in a flexible high speed signal processor engine  
Systems and methods are disclosed to provide channel monitoring and/or performance monitoring for a communication channel. For example, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an...
7551701 Frequency domain training of prefilters with interference suppression  
Prefilters for a receiver with multiple input branches are trained in the frequency domain. The frequency response B of a conditioned channel is determined without reference to the prefilters, and...
7551679 Symmetrical data signal processing  
In a digital communications receiver configured to receive, via a communications channel, a received first signal representing a sequence of symbols, each symbol being encoded to be representative...
7551667 Feed forward equalizer  
Method and apparatus for a feed forward equalizer for a communication system are described wherein an equalizer may comprise a tapped filter having multiple filter multipliers, a correlator having...
7548598 Method and apparatus for iteratively improving the performance of coded and interleaved communication systems  
A system and method for improving performance of a digital communication system using forward error correction and interleaving. In the system, the channel equalization values are iteratively...
7548582 Kalman-viterbi joint channel equalizer  
In a channel equalizer applicable to a digital television receiver, a forward filter and a backward filter perform filtering to an input signal and a predetermined signal. A Viterbi decoder...
7545862 Adaptive equalizer, decoding device, and error detecting device  
For a waveform containing a partial response and distortion in only the leading-edge portion of inter-symbol interference (ISI) of a waveform equalized by a prior-stage feedforward filter (FFF) so...
7545861 Timing recovery circuit and timing recovery method  
A timing recovery circuit for a receiver may include a timing error detector that generates a timing error based on differences between coefficients of a feed-forward filter and a feed-back filter....
7545859 Adaptive channel equalization technique and method for wideband passive digital receivers  
An adaptive channel equalization technique and method for wideband passive receivers is disclosed that reduces and tends to minimize distortions caused by circuitry within passive digital...
7542528 Far end crosstalk mitigation in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels using partial maximum likelihood MIMO-DFE  
A partial maximum likelihood (ML) far end crosstalk (FEXT) decoder for a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications channel comprises an initial estimate generator module that generates...