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App. No. 15/259,662

Receiver with Clock Recovery Circuit and Adaptive Sample and Equalizer Timing

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App. No.
15/259,662
Abstract

A receiver is equipped with an adaptive phase-offset controller and associated timing-calibration circuitry that together shift the timing for a data sampler and a digital equalizer. The sample and equalizer timing is shifted to a position with less residual inter-symbol interference (ISI) energy relative to the current symbol. The shifted position may be calculated using a measure of signal quality, such as a receiver bit-error rate or a comparison of filter-tap values, to optimize the timing of data recovery.

Claims (7)

1 . A receiver comprising:

a data input port;

an edge sampler coupled to the data input port;

clock recovery circuitry having a clock-recovery input port, coupled to the data input port via the edge sampler, and a clock-recovery output port;

a data sampler having a data-sampler input terminal, coupled to the data input port, and a data-sampler output terminal;

an equalizer coupled to the data-sampler input terminal, the equalizer having an equalizer clock terminal; and

an adaptive phase-offset controller coupled between the clock-recovery output port of the clock recovery circuitry and the equalizer clock terminal, the phase-offset controller having a phase-offset control port.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 7, 2016
From: LIN, QI; LEIBOWITZ, BRIAN; LEE, HAE-CHANG; REN, JIHONG; OH, KYUNG SUK; ZERBE, JARED
To: RAMBUS INC.
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