Abstract:
Apparatus and associated methods relate to adapting a continuous time linear equalization circuit with minimum mean square error baud-rate clock and data recovery circuit to be able to lock to the center or near center of an eye diagram. In an illustrative example, a circuit may include an inter-symbol interference (ISI) detector configured to receive data and error samples, a summing circuit coupled to the output of the ISI detector, a moving average filter configured to receive the output of the summing circuit and generate an average output, a voter configured to generate a vote in response to the average output and a predetermined threshold, and, an accumulator and code generator configured to generate a code signal in response to the generated vote. By introducing the moving average filter and the voter, a quicker way to lock to the center or near center of an eye diagram may be obtained.
Abstract:
An example method of performing an eye-scan in a receiver includes: generating (104) digital samples from an analog signal input to the receiver based on a sampling clock, the sampling clock phase-shifted with respect to a reference clock based on a phase interpolator (PI) code; equalizing (204) the digital samples based on first equalization parameters of a plurality of equalization parameters of the receiver; adapting (404) the plurality of equalization parameters and performing clock recovery based on the digital samples to generate the PI code; and performing a plurality of cycles of locking (406) the plurality of equalization parameters, suspending (408) phase detection in the clock recovery, offsetting (410) the PI code, collecting (412) an output of the receiver, resuming (414) the phase detection in the clock recovery, and unlocking (414) the equalization parameters to perform the eye scan.
Abstract:
An example sigma delta modulator (SDM) circuit includes a floor circuit (306), a subtractor (308) having a first input coupled an input of the floor circuit and a second input coupled to an output of the floor circuit, and a multi-stage noise shaping (MASH) converter (302) having a programmable order. The MASH converter includes an input coupled to an output of the subtractor. The SDM further includes a programmable delay circuit (304) having an input coupled to the output of the floor circuit, and an adder (310) having a first input coupled to an output of the MASH converter and a second input coupled to an output of the programmable delay circuit.
Abstract:
A circuit includes a first finger capacitor (100) having a first bus line (110) coupled to a first plurality of finger elements (120) and a second bus line (105) coupled to a second plurality of finger elements (115). The first bus line is parallel to the second bus line. The circuit further includes an inductor (500) having a first leg (125, 515) oriented perpendicular to the first bus line and the second bus line. The first leg of the inductor is coupled to a center (135) of the first bus line. Related methods are also disclosed.