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H04L 27/01 (2006.01) H04B 3/04 (2006.01) H04L 25/03 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2310190
A method and apparatus are disclosed for increasing the effective processing speed of a parallel decision-feedback equalizer by combining block processing and look-ahead techniques in the selection (multiplexing) stage. The present invention extends a parallel decision-feedback equalization by using look-ahead techniques in the selection stage to precompute the effect of previous blocks on each subsequent block, and to thereby remove the serial output dependency. The parallel decision-feedback equalization includes a multiplexor tree structure that selects an appropriate output value for each block and precomputes the effect of previous blocks on each subsequent block. A multiplexing delay algorithm on the order of logN is employed to resolve the output dependency and thus speeds up parallel block processing decision-feedback equalizations. The disclosed decision-feedback equalization architecture can be combined with pipelining to completely eliminate the critical path problem. Pipelining reduces the required critical path timing to one multiplexing time. The disclosed multiplexor tree circuitry for the parallel decision-feedback equalizer groups multiplexor blocks into groups of two, referred to as block pairs, and provides at least one multiplexor for each block, i, to select an output value, y i, from among the possible precomputed values. The output of each parallel block depends on the possible precomputed values generated by the look-ahead processors for the block, as well as the actual values that are ultimately selected far each previous block. In order to reduce the delay in obtaining each actual output value, the present invention assumes that each block contains each possible value, and carries the assumption through to all subsequent blocks. Thus, the number of multiplexors required to select from among the possible values grows according to N-logN, where N is the block number.
Azadet Kameran
Yu Meng-Lin
Kirby Eades Gale Baker
Lucent Technologies Inc.
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