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Receiver system having analog pre-filter and digital equalizer

US7664172B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateAug 15, 2006
Grant dateFeb 16, 2010
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Expiry dateAug 15, 2026

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L25/03254
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A receiver system contains an analog pre-filter (207 or 619), an analog-to-digital converter (210), a digital equalizer (212), and a decoder (605) arranged sequentially for processing an input analog signal (yk). The pre-filter produces a filtered analog signal (Zs) with reduced intersymbol interference. The converter provides analog-to-digital signal conversion. Digital equalization circuitry in the equalizer operates according to a transfer frmnctionto produce an equalized digital signal (a'k) as a stream of equalized digital values. Coefficients c−1 and c0 are fixed. Each other coefficient ci is adaptively chosen. The decoder converts the equalized digital values, or intermediate values generated therefrom, into a stream of symbols. A receiver system may include two or more receivers each configured in the foregoing way with the digital equalization circuitry in each receiver operating according to a transfer functionwhere at least coefficients c−1, c0, and c1 are non-zero.

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