Adaptive equalization circuit and method

DW Feldbaumer, MB Weaver, R Shookhtim… - US Patent …, 2003 - Google Patents
A timing based adaptive equalization circuit (10) dynamically monitors a signal received at
an input terminal (16) and compensates for attenuation losses in the transmission of the …

Feed forward equalizer for a communication system

B Christensen - US Patent 7,738,546, 2010 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND Adaptive equalization techniques may be used in a data transceiver to
compensate for amplitude and phase distortions introduced by a transmission channel. As …

Demodulator for a multi-pair gigabit transceiver

OE Agazzi, D Kruse, A Abnous, M Hatamian - US Patent 6,201,831, 2001 - Google Patents
A feedforward equalizer for equalizing a sequence of signal samples received by a receiver
from a remote transmitter. The feedforward equalizer has a gain and is included in the …

Hybrid adaptive equalizer for optical communications systems

P Orlik, J Zhang - US Patent 7,023,912, 2006 - Google Patents
A method equalizes a received signal in an optical communications system. The received
signal is passed through an analog delay line where it is tapped to generate a set of delayed …

Demodulator for a multi-pair gigabit transceiver

OE Agazzi, D Kruse, A Abnous, M Hatamian - US Patent 6,707,848, 2004 - Google Patents
A feedforward equalizer for equalizing a sequence of signal samples received by a receiver
from a remote transmitter. The feedforward equalizer has a gain and is included in the …

Noise predictive maximum likelihood (NPML) detection methods and apparatus based thereon

JD Coker, ES Eleftheriou, RL Galbraith… - US Patent 6,104,766, 2000 - Google Patents
The invention is family of noise predictive maximum likli hood (NPML) symbol detectors that
are particularly useful in direct acceSS Storage devices. Various embodiments rep …

Seek trajectory adaptation in sinusoidal seek servo hard disk drives

SH Chu, JI Lee, JS Shim, WG Kim - US Patent 6,744,590, 2004 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method, apparatus, and computer program product for a hard disk drive
Servomechanism. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a disk which has a Surface …

Adaptive analog equalizer for partial response channels

PJ Moran, ITY Chan, K Han - US Patent 6,216,148, 2001 - Google Patents
A single analog filter structure within a partial response channel combines an antialias low
pass filter and a time domain waveform shaping equalizer upstream of a digital sampler. The …

View DAC feedback inside analog front circuit

S Cyrusian - US Patent 6,519,103, 2003 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND Computer hard disk drives, also known as fixed disk drives or hard disk
drives, have become a de facto data Storage Standard for computer Systems. Their …

Method and apparatus for providing write pre-compensation using a read timing path

FM Musungu, JM Poss, RA Richetta - US Patent 7,123,429, 2006 - Google Patents
2. Description of Related Art Recently developed data storage devices, such as mag netic
disk drive devices (ie, hard disk drives), have increased storage capacity and increased data …