Decision-feedback analyzer and methods for operating the same
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsThomas H. Toifl, Hazar Yüksel
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Abstract
A decision-feedback equalizer for use in a receiving unit of an incoming data stream and for providing a stream of bit data outputs includes a number of comparators configured to perform a comparison related to a number of threshold values and related to a digitalized data sample and to obtain a comparison result; at least one correction block configured to receive the comparison result of a respective one of the comparators and to generate a plurality of intermediate results; and a multiplexer configured to select from the set of intermediate results depending on the output data history to provide the stream of bit data outputs.
Claims9
A method for decision-feedback equalization for use in a receiving unit of an incoming data stream and for providing a stream of bit data outputs, the method comprising:
- performing a comparison related to a number of provided threshold values and related to a provided digitalized data sample, and obtaining a comparison result;
- receiving the comparison result of a respective one of the comparisons to generate a plurality of intermediate results;
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- multiplexing from the set of intermediate results depending on the output data history to provide the stream of bit data outputs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.