• Patent Title: Live offset cancellation of the decision feedback equalization data slicers
  • Application No.: US17298165
    Application Date: 2019-12-10
  • Publication No.: US11671286B2
    Publication Date: 2023-06-06
  • Inventor: Mohammad Sadegh JalaliMarcus Van Ierssel
  • Applicant: Rambus Inc.
  • Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
  • Assignee: Rambus Inc.
  • Current Assignee: Rambus Inc.
  • Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
  • Agency: The Neudeck Law Firm, LLC
  • International Application: PCT/US2019/065429 2019.12.10
  • International Announcement: WO2020/123475A 2020.06.18
  • Date entered country: 2021-05-28
  • Main IPC: H04L25/03
  • IPC: H04L25/03
Live offset cancellation of the decision feedback equalization data slicers
Abstract:
A receiver utilizes loop-unrolled decision feedback equalization (DFE). For each sample, two comparators, each configured with different thresholds, sample an input signal. The output of one of these comparators is selected and used as the output of the receiver and may be optionally input to additional DFE circuitry. The output of the other (non-selected) comparator is used to adjust an input offset voltage of that same comparator. Adjustments to the offset voltages of the comparators may be based on a statistical analysis of the respective outputs of the two comparators when not selected. Adjustments to the offset voltages of the comparators may be based on comparisons between the respective outputs of the two comparators when not selected to the outputs of a reference comparator that has been calibrated for minimal or zero offset.
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