Conditioning circuit that spectrally shapes a serviced bit stream

A high-speed serial bit stream conditioning circuit configured to generate a conditioned TX signal and a conditioned RX signal, the high-speed serial bit stream conditioning circuit comprising:

• a line side interface that communicatively couples to a line side media, the line side interface configured to receive a RX signal therefrom, and to transmit the conditioned TX signal thereto;
• a board side interface that communicatively couples to a communication ASIC, the board side interface configured to receive a TX signal therefrom, and to transmit the conditioned RX signal thereto;
• an equalizer that receives a high-speed serial bit stream as the RX signal or the TX signal and that spectrally shapes the high-speed serial bit stream to produce an equalized high-speed serial bit stream, wherein the equalizer is programmable to spectrally shape the high-speed serial bit stream based upon spectral control settings, wherein the equalizer is configured to receive the RX signal from the line side interface and to produce the equalized high-speed serial bit stream, and the equalizer is configured to receive the TX signal from the board side interface and to produce the equalized high-speed serial bit stream;
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• a clock and data recovery circuit operable to compensate for jitter, the clock and data recovery circuit operably coupled to an output of the equalizer that recovers the equalized high-speed bit stream to produce an output high-speed serial bit stream as either respectively the conditioned TX signal or the conditioned RX signal.