Adaptive noise filtering and equalization for optimal high speed multilevel signal decoding
First Claim
1. A system for processing digital signals comprising symbols propagated according to a period, the system comprising:
- a signal conditioning filter comprising;
a first stage for mitigating degradations of the digital signals that occur according to a first time scale, the first stage comprising a first analog filter tuned to the first time scale, the first time scale comprising a fraction of the period at which the symbols are propagated, anda second stage for removing signal distortions that occur according to a second time scale, the second stage comprising a second analog filter tuned to the second time scale, the second time scale being different than the first time scale and comprising a magnitude at least equal to the period at which the symbols are propagated; and
a signal integrity unit coupled to an output of the second stage, the signal integrity unit comprising a third analog filter stage for producing an analog probability estimate, the signal integrity unit analyzing the analog probability estimate and adjusting the first and second time scales based on the analysis of the analog probability estimate.
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Abstract
A Signal Conditioning Filter (SCF) and a Signal Integrity Unit (SIU) address the coupled problem of equalization and noise filtering in order to improve signal fidelity for decoding. Specifically, a received signal can be filtered in a manner to optimize the signal fidelity even in the presence of both significant (large magnitudes of) ISI and noise. The present invention can provide an adaptive method that continuously monitors a signal fidelity measure. Monitoring the fidelity of a multilevel signal can be performed by external means such as by the SIU. A received signal y(t) can be “conditioned” by application of a filter with an electronically adjustable impulse response g(t). A resulting output z(t) can then be interrogated to characterize the quality of the conditioned signal. This fidelity measure q(t) can be used to adjust the filter response to maximize the fidelity measure of the conditioned signal.
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10 Claims
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1. A system for processing digital signals comprising symbols propagated according to a period, the system comprising:
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a signal conditioning filter comprising; a first stage for mitigating degradations of the digital signals that occur according to a first time scale, the first stage comprising a first analog filter tuned to the first time scale, the first time scale comprising a fraction of the period at which the symbols are propagated, and a second stage for removing signal distortions that occur according to a second time scale, the second stage comprising a second analog filter tuned to the second time scale, the second time scale being different than the first time scale and comprising a magnitude at least equal to the period at which the symbols are propagated; and a signal integrity unit coupled to an output of the second stage, the signal integrity unit comprising a third analog filter stage for producing an analog probability estimate, the signal integrity unit analyzing the analog probability estimate and adjusting the first and second time scales based on the analysis of the analog probability estimate. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A system for processing digital signals comprising symbols propagated according to a symbol period, the system comprising:
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a first analog filter stage comprising a first filter tuned to a first time constant, the first time constant comprising a value that is less than the symbol period, for compensating for signal distortions that occur within a single symbol period and for integrating over less than a symbol period; a second analog filter stage comprising a second filter tuned to a second time constant, the first time constant being smaller than the second time constant and the second time constant comprising value at least equal to the symbol period; and a signal integrity unit coupled to an output of the second analog filter stage, the signal integrity unit comprising a third analog filter stage for producing an analog probability estimate, the signal integrity unit analyzing the analog probability estimate and adjusting the first and second time constants based on the analysis of the analog probability estimate. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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