US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Sept. 9 for "Decision feedback equalizer with feedforward finite impulse response filter" (Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,454, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Decision feedback equalizer with feedforward finite impulse response filter" was invented by Ricardo Rodrigues (Braganca, Portugal) and Ruben Sousa (Lisbon, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An equalizer circuit includes: an analog front end circuit configured to receive an analog input signal from a transmission line; an analog finite impulse response filter circuit including: a sample and hold circuit configured to sample an output of the analog front end circuit; and a weighting circuit configured to weight the output of the analog front end circuit...