Low power receiver with equalization circuit, communication unit and method therefor

Abstract

A low power receiver having a feedforward equalization, FFE, based continuous time linear equalizer, CTLE. The FFE CTLE comprises: an input for receiving an input signal; a main first path operably coupled to the input and comprising a source-follower transistor arranged to apply a scaling factor to the received input signal; a second path operably coupled to the input and comprising a delay arranged to apply a delay to the received input signal and a common source transistor common source transistor arranged to apply a scaling factor to the received delayed input signal, wherein the source-follower transistor and the common source, CS, transistor are connected as a single SF-CS stage whose output is arranged to subtract the output of the common source transistor from an output of the source-follower transistor.

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