Low voltage multistage adaptive equalizer

An adaptive equalizer having an adaptive filter, for at least partly compensating for frequency dependent signal modifications introduced by a transmission channel, said adaptive filter comprising a plurality of adaptive amplification compensation stages, each compensation stage being provided for receiving at least one tuning parameter,

• wherein each of the at least one tuning parameter is such that it has one of a first binary value, a second binary value, or an intermediate value,
• a tuning parameter with a binary value generating a first signal filtering behavior and a tuning parameter with an intermediate value generating a second signal filtering behavior, the second signal filtering behavior being non-linear signal filtering behavior.

A method for adaptively equalizing at least part of a distorted signal from a transmission channel, wherein the distorted signal is filtered in an adaptive filter comprising a plurality of adaptive amplification compensation stages which are provided for receiving at least one tuning parameter,

• the method comprising driving the tuning parameters so as to have one of a first binary value, a second binary value or an intermediate value,
• a tuning parameter with a binary value generating a first signal filtering behavior and a tuning parameter with an intermediate value generating a second signal filtering behavior, said second filtering behavior being non-linear.