Method for controlling gain of multi-stage equalizer of serial data receiver

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10979253-B2
Application number	US-202016751854-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 24, 2020
Priority date	Jan 25, 2019
Publication date	Apr 13, 2021
Grant date	Apr 13, 2021

Abstract

The invention comprises a method for controlling a gain of a multi-stage equalizer of a serial data receiver, applied to the serial data receiver comprising the multi-stage equalizer, wherein the method comprises: Step S 1 , enabling the serial data receiver to receive a set of serial data; Step S 2 , selecting a plurality of continuous data sequences from the set of serial data according to a preset first rule; Step S 3 , extracting a predetermined bit from each of the plurality of continuous data sequences; Step S 4 , calculating an equalization gain identifier corresponding to each of the plurality of continuous data sequences according to a predetermined bit in each of the plurality of continuous data sequences; Step S 5 , obtaining an optimized equalization gain identifier through calculation according to each of the equalization gain identifiers; and Step S 6 , controlling a gain value of the multi-stage equalizer according to the optimized equalization gain identifier.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for controlling a gain of a multi-stage equalizer of a serial data receiver, applied to the serial data receiver, the serial data receiver comprising the multi-stage equalizer, wherein the method comprises the steps of:
Step S 1 , enabling the serial data receiver to receive a set of serial data;
Step S 2 , selecting a plurality of continuous data sequences from the set of serial data according to a preset first rule;
Step S 3 , extracting a predetermined bit from each of the plurality of continuous data sequences;
Step S 4 , calculating an equalization gain identifier corresponding to each of the plurality of continuous data sequences according to a predetermined bit in each of the plurality of continuous data sequences;
Step S 5 , obtaining an optimized equalization gain identifier through calculation according to each of the equalization gain identifiers; and
Step S 6 , controlling a gain value of the multi-stage equalizer according to the optimized equalization gain identifier;
wherein in Step S 5 , obtaining the optimized equalization gain identifier further comprises:
Step S 51 , counting the number of the equalization gain identifiers which act as increase identifiers; and
counting the number of the equalization gain identifiers which act as decrease identifiers;
Step S 52 , determining whether the number of the equalization gain identifiers which act as increase identifiers is greater than the number of the equalization gain identifiers which act as decrease identifiers;
if yes, the optimized equalization gain identifiers are the increase identifiers; and
if no, the optimized equalization gain identifiers are the decrease identifiers.

2. The method for controlling a gain of a multi-stage equalizer of a serial data receiver of claim 1 , wherein the preset first rule in Step S 2 comprises:
Step A 1 , setting a plurality of sequence length values for the set of serial data;
Step A 2 , selecting a sequence length value from the plurality of sequence length values according to a preset second rule; and
Step A 3 , selecting a current continuous data sequence from the set of serial data according to the selected sequence length value.

3. The method for controlling a gain of a multi-stage equalizer of a serial data receiver of claim 1 , wherein the data sequence has a length greater than or equal to 3 bits.

4. The method for controlling a gain of a multi-stage equalizer of a serial data receiver of claim 3 , wherein in Step S 3 , the predetermined bit is a third bit counting from the beginning of the data sequence, and a data interval between a first bit and a second bit counting from the beginning of the data sequences.

5. The method for controlling a gain of a multi-stage equalizer of a serial data receiver of claim 4 , wherein the data interval is obtained by sampling the set of serial data at half rate.

6. The method for controlling a gain of a multi-stage equalizer of a serial data receiver of claim 4 , wherein in Step S 4 , the equalization gain identifier is calculated by means of exclusive OR operation.

7. The method for controlling a gain of a multi-stage equalizer of a serial data receiver of claim 1 , wherein Step S 6 further comprises:
when the optimized equalization gain identifiers are the increase identifiers, decreasing the gain value of the multi-stage equalizer; and
when the optimized equalization gain identifiers are the decrease identifiers, increasing the gain value of the multi-stage equalizer.

8. The method for controlling a gain of a multi-stage equalizer of a serial data receiver of claim 2 , wherein the preset second rule further comprises:
Step B 1 , arranging each of the plurality of sequence length values according to the sequence length;
Step B 2 , sequentially selecting one of the sequence length values, and each selected sequence length value is not repeated; or
randomly selecting one of the sequence length values, and each selected sequence length value is not repeated.

9. The method for controlling a gain of a multi-stage equalizer of a serial data receiver of claim 8 , wherein sequentially selecting one of the sequence length values comprises the steps of:
Step C 1 , counting the number of the sequence length values, and
setting a corresponding serial number for each of the sequence length values according to a numerical value of each of the sequence length values;
Step C 2 , calculating the serial number of each currently selected sequence length value in the plurality of sequence length values using the following formula according to the number of the sequence length values,

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wherein A represents the serial number of each currently selected sequence length value in the plurality of sequence length values, when A is not an integer, A is set to an integer closest to A and greater than A;
m represents a current round of selection; and
n represents the number of the sequence length values.

Assignees

• Amlogic Shanghai Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhou Weihua
• Shi Ming

Classifications

• H04L25/03343

  Arrangements at the transmitter end · CPC title

• H04L25/03031 Primary

  using only passive components (H04L25/03025 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04L25/03885 Primary

  adaptive · CPC title

• H04L25/03178

  Arrangements involving sequence estimation techniques · CPC title