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Receiver for data transmission system with nonlinearities

US5131011A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 26, 1990
Grant dateJul 14, 1992
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Expiry dateJun 26, 2010

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L25/03337
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Non-linear intersymbol interference and noise in a received data signal are corrected through use of a Viterbi detector which estimates the most likely sequence of transmitted data symbols by keeping track of candidate data sequence that are recursively updated, based on likelihood measures which are determined by a signal processor which includes circuits for estimating hypothesized channel outputs in the absence of noise. Non-linear input-output relations are stored in one or more look-up tables which, in a preferred embodiment, are registers that store hypothesized channel output symbols in the absence of noise. The contents of the look-up tables may be modified in response to an error signal representative of the difference of the channel output signal and the look-up table output signal.

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