Multi-carrier LAN adapter device using frequency domain equalizer
First Claim
1. A system for interconnecting a plurality of devices comprising:
- a shared communication medium; and
a plurality of adapter devices having a first and second port, said first port for connection to one of the plurality of devices and said second port for connection to said shared communication medium, and each of said plurality of adapter devices having a multi-carrier transceiver for transmitting and receiving data on a plurality of predetermined carriers over said shared communication medium to at least one of said adapter devices;
wherein said multi-carrier transceiver further includes a signal transformer for generating a frequency domain signal from a received time domain signal, and a frequency domain equalizer for operating on said frequency domain signal, said equalizer comprising a single tap filter for each carrier of a multi-carrier signal received by said multi-carrier transceiver.
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Abstract
A LAN Adapter device having a frequency domain equalizer. The LAN adapter device allows LAN computing devices to connect to the LAN medium. The adapter devices are internal or external to the LAN devices and provide a transceiver and protocol stacks for the LAN devices to communicate with each other. The physical layer of the transceivers includes transmitter having a DMT modulator and demodulator that is dynamically configurable with respect to data rate and spectrum usage. Within the receiver is an equalizer for equalizing the received signal with a simple yet effective equalizer training method, thereby obviating the need for extensive equalizer training and long-term coefficient storage. The equalizer trains on known symbols transmitted in one frame of a transmitted packet to determine an estimate of the channel response. The remaining frames that are modulated with data are equalized based on an estimate of the channel response determined from interpolating between the points previously determined from the known symbols.
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1. A system for interconnecting a plurality of devices comprising:
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a shared communication medium; and
a plurality of adapter devices having a first and second port, said first port for connection to one of the plurality of devices and said second port for connection to said shared communication medium, and each of said plurality of adapter devices having a multi-carrier transceiver for transmitting and receiving data on a plurality of predetermined carriers over said shared communication medium to at least one of said adapter devices;
wherein said multi-carrier transceiver further includes a signal transformer for generating a frequency domain signal from a received time domain signal, and a frequency domain equalizer for operating on said frequency domain signal, said equalizer comprising a single tap filter for each carrier of a multi-carrier signal received by said multi-carrier transceiver. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A network adapter device for connecting a computing device to a shared electrical signaling medium comprising:
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a first physical interface for connection to a computing device;
a second physical interface for connection to a shared electrical signaling medium; and
a transceiver connected to said first and second physical interfaces for transmitting and receiving data on said first interface and transmitting and receiving modulated multi-carrier data bursts over said second interface, wherein each said burst comprises a plurality of frames, said transceiver including a signal transformer for converting received time domain signals to frequency domain signals, and a frequency domain equalizer connected to said signal transformer for processing said frequency domain signals, said equalizer comprising a single tap filter for each carrier of said modulated multi-carrier data burst received by said transceiver. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method of transferring data among a plurality of computing devices connected to a shared communication medium comprising the steps of:
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receiving data from a computing device;
mapping the data to a plurality of sets of signal points where each signal point is assigned a carrier frequency;
transforming each signal point set to a time domain signal;
transmitting the time domain signals to a plurality of computing devices over a shared communication medium;
receiving time domain signals from at least one of said plurality of computing devices;
converting said time domain signals to frequency domain signals; and
filtering said frequency domain signals using a frequency domain equalizer. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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