20140047497 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SYMBOL-RATE-INDEPENDENT ADAPTIVE EQUALIZER INITIALIZATION - The current document is related to the equalization of digital communications signals, including GB 20600-2006 and ATSC digital television signals, and is directed to methods that initialize adaptive filters for processing payload data within equalizers. These methods may operate at a clock speed faster than the symbol transmission rate and are applicable to a multitude of digital communications standards and protocols. In certain implementations, the initialization method generates input records, from output of a pseudorandom number generator, and output records, from the output of a pseudorandom number generator and a channel estimate, that are decoupled from transmitted and received data and are used to adjust equalizer coefficients to an initialization setting suitable for processing payload data. | 02-13-2014 |