US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 17 for "Decision-feedback equalizer slicers for pulse amplitude modulation signaling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,796, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Decision-feedback equalizer slicers for pulse amplitude modulation signaling" was invented by Younwoong Chung (San Diego), Yu Song (San Diego) and Chia Heng Chang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interface circuit includes a current summer, a pair of slicers and a pair of replica summing circuits. The current summer is configured to sum currents representative of a signaling state of an input signal in a sequence of transmission intervals. A first slicer is configured to generate a first decision based on a comparison of an output of the current summer ...