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Compensation factor reduction in an unrolled decision feedback equalizer

US8885699B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 16, 2014
Grant dateNov 11, 2014
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Expiry dateJan 16, 2034

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L25/03108
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An unrolled decision feedback equalizer (DFE) as disclosed herein has a reduced number of compensation factors while keeping a suitable performance level for a given application. The KN possible DFE correction levels are reduced or compressed into fewer levels (R), merging together the levels that are the closest together where K represents the number of possible symbols in each baud, or the number of bits encoded into each baud, and N represents the DFE depth in number of bauds. A mapping function is then provided to convert the KN combinations of previous history bits into R sampler selections.

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