Noise reducing receiver
AssigneeRambus Inc.
InventorsMasum Hossain, Carl W. Werner
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Abstract
Disclosed is receiver for a noise limited system. A front-end circuit amplifies and band-limits an incoming signal. The amplification increases the signal swing but introduces both thermal and flicker noise. A low-pass band limitation reduces the thermal noise component present at frequencies above what is necessary for correctly receiving the transmitted symbols. This band limited signal is provided to the integrator circuit. The output of the integrator is equalized to reduce the effects of inter-symbol interference and then sampled. The samples are used to apply low frequency equalization (i.e., in response to long and/or unbalanced strings of symbols) to mitigate the effects of DC wander caused by mismatches between the number of symbols of each kind being received.
Claims20
An integrated circuit, comprising:
- decision feedback equalization circuitry to reduce an error component of an integrator output for a current receiver symbol time based on a previous receiver symbol sampler decision that corresponds to an immediately preceding symbol time;
- and,
- baseline wander correction circuitry to reduce an amount of error component of a band limited signal based on a plurality of consecutive and previous receiver symbol sampler decisions, the band limited signal having a frequency spectrum that excludes a low-frequency band.
An integrated circuit, comprising:
- front-end circuitry to receive a signal during a current symbol time and to provide a bandwidth limited signal based on the signal, the band limited signal having a frequency spectrum that excludes a low-frequency band;
- first integrator circuitry to, based on the bandwidth limited signal, provide an integrator output signal;
- and,
- baseline wander correction circuitry to reduce an error component of the band limited signal based on a plurality of consecutive and previous receiver symbol sampler decisions.
An integrated circuit, comprising:
- correction circuitry to reduce an error component in a bandwidth limited signal corresponding to a current symbol time based on a first plurality of consecutive symbol sampler decisions;
- filter circuitry to provide the bandwidth limited signal based on an input signal;
- integrator circuitry to, based at least in part on the bandwidth limited signal, provide an integrator output signal;
- equalization circuitry to receive the integrator output signal and to, based on a previous symbol sampler decision indicator, produce an equalized integrator output signal corresponding to the current symbol time;
- and,
- baseline wander correction circuitry to reduce an error component of the band limited signal based on a plurality of consecutive and previous symbol sampler decisions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.