WO2003009556A1 - Equalizer for multichannel data transmission - Google Patents
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
- H04L25/00—Baseband systems
- H04L25/02—Details ; arrangements for supplying electrical power along data transmission lines
- H04L25/03—Shaping networks in transmitter or receiver, e.g. adaptive shaping networks
- H04L25/03006—Arrangements for removing intersymbol interference
- H04L25/03012—Arrangements for removing intersymbol interference operating in the time domain
- H04L25/03019—Arrangements for removing intersymbol interference operating in the time domain adaptive, i.e. capable of adjustment during data reception
- H04L25/03038—Arrangements for removing intersymbol interference operating in the time domain adaptive, i.e. capable of adjustment during data reception with a non-recursive structure
- H04L25/0305—Arrangements for removing intersymbol interference operating in the time domain adaptive, i.e. capable of adjustment during data reception with a non-recursive structure using blind adaptation
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
- H04L25/00—Baseband systems
- H04L25/02—Details ; arrangements for supplying electrical power along data transmission lines
- H04L25/03—Shaping networks in transmitter or receiver, e.g. adaptive shaping networks
- H04L25/03006—Arrangements for removing intersymbol interference
- H04L2025/03592—Adaptation methods
- H04L2025/03726—Switching between algorithms
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- the invention relates to compensation for interference in a data receiver of the type receiving symbols on a plurality of channels ("dimensions").
- a data receiver of the type receiving symbols on a plurality of channels (“dimensions").
- An example of such a receiver is a 1000BASE-T ("Gigabit") receiver operating according to the IEEE 802.3ab standard.
- an equalizer such as a feed forward equalizer (FFE) adapts itself at start-up to compensate for inter symbol interference (ISI) in its associated dimension.
- FFE feed forward equalizer
- This adaptation adjusts filter coefficients automatically to optimise a pre-defined cost function.
- the adaptation is often referred to as "opening the eye”.
- a complication in the adaptation is that it must not only adapt to the characteristics of the particular cable, but also to unknown interference from other cables.
- Fig. A eye opening over a period of 8 x 10 ns using blind equalisation is illustrated.
- LMS least mean squares
- a "blind" adaptation algorithm is used. Because such algorithms are often noisy and difficult to quantify mathematically, it is common practice to switch over to a LMS algorithm at an appropriate stage during eye opening.
- O 00/62470 and WO 99/07077 both describe a method for opening the eye for multiple channel receivers. The approach described involves the use of predefined training sequences or synchronisation signals at initialisation to enable synchronisation of the transmitting and receiving nodes. However, 1000BASE-T does not allow the use of training sequences.
- the invention is therefore directed towards advancing effective eye opening in a more robust manner and in less time.
- an equalizer for a data communication receiver comprising means for adapting to each of a plurality of channels to open the eye for each channel, characterised in that the equalizer comprises means for opening the eye for a first channel, and for applying coefficients of said adaptation to open the eye of at least one subsequent channel.
- the equalizer comprises means for applying the coefficients via a transformation process.
- the equalizer comprises means for keeping the magnitude response substantially constant during transformation.
- the equalizer comprises means for allowing a selected one of a plurality of phase delays to be applied during transformation. In one embodiment, the equalizer comprises means for performing the transformation according to an interpolation function.
- the function is a linear interpolation function.
- the equalizer comprises means for modifying the group delay through a ilter during trans ormation.
- the group delay is modified by a fraction of a symbol period.
- the equalizer comprises means for opening the eye of a channel transmitting IID symbols and for applying coefficients of said adaptation to open the eye of at least one non-IID channel.
- the invention provides a 1000BASE-T transceiver comprising an equalizer as defined above.
- the invention provides a data communication receiver comprising an equalizer as defined above.
- Fig. 1 is a flow diagram illustrating eye opening of four dimensions
- Fig. 2 is a plot illustrating frequency response of four 1000BASE-T cables
- Fig. 3 is a plot zoomed to the 0Hz to 50 MHz range
- Fig. 4 is a block diagram illustrating eye opening equalizer circuits
- Fig. 5 is a plot of magnitude responses for seven different transforms of the equalizer coefficients on dimension A
- Fig. 6 is a plot of group delays for these transforms.
- an equalizer of the invention opens the eye for dimension A, and then proceeds to do so for each of the other dimensions using coefficients assigned from A.
- Gigabit Ethernet timing recovery is performed on at least one channel for recovery of the correct sampling phase and sampling frequency. Furthermore in Gigabit Ethernet LTD (independently identically distributed) coding is used on channel A, but channels B, C and D use non-IID coding. Channel A is thus a good choice for timing recovery. Thus opening the eye for dimension A is easier than for the dimensions B, C and D as the coding is ELD and timing recovery is available.
- a second step the equalizer makes a first attempt at opening the eye for dimension B.
- An index k of the number of attempts made at opening the eye is maintained.
- the equalizer uses the set of coefficients u(0) of A i.e. those used for opening the eye for A, and transformations are performed on this set of coefficients.
- the coefficients are transformed in a manner keeping the magnitude response substantially constant, while on the other hand allowing a variety of different phase delays to be applied. Thus, very often a single adaptation algorithm is sufficient to open the eye for each dimension subsequent to the first.
- An interpolation function is used for the transformation.
- the ambiguity in phase comes about because even though the lengths of channel should be very similar, even small differences in length have a large effect on the phase of the signal that is presented to the equalizer input. If all four cables were of identical length then the equalizer coefficients on dimension A would open the eye on the other dimensions. If however one of the channels was to differ in length by a small amount ⁇ then the equalizer coefficients from dimension A would compensate for the channel but present a symbol waveform shifted by some fractional amount. This fractional offset is corrected for using the transform function though the equalizer must search through a number of different, not necessarily equally, spaced fractional delays to locate the one that opens the eye. If the eye is open we can use LMS straight away or use a blind algorithm to open the eye further before switching to LMS.
- Fig. 2 shows the magnitude of the frequency response of the cables for the 4 different dimensions over the range Ohz to 500MHz. Note the similarity across the four dimensions.
- a zoom of the previous plot concentrating on the Ohz to 50MHz range where most of the transmitted signal energy lies is shown in Fig. 3.
- the transform function to map coefficients for the equalizer on dimension A into starting points from which to begin adapting from on dimensions B, C and D comes from a family of interpolation functions.
- the magnitude response and group delays for transformed versions of the equalizer coefficients are given in Fig. 5 and Fig. 6. In this case a linear interpolator was used, though other interpolation functions are equally valid.
- the transformation function uses as its source the coefficients of the equalizer on dimension A.
- the transform is done in such a way that the group delay through the filter is either lessened by some fractional amount up to a half symbol period or increased by some amount up to a half symbol period. In this way a search is done over an entire symbol period with minimum deviation from the initial position. This minimises the risk of the centre tap of the transformed equalizer from drifting too far to the front or the back of the filter.
- Fig. 4 shows an example of an implementation of how a transformed version of coefficients c (k) can be generated from the A dimension coefficients a,- and how these coefficients can be loaded as a starting point to the registers for the dimensions B, C and D.
- a circuit 10 comprises a series of registers for performing the transformation process.
- the coefficients & ⁇ of the equalizer on dimension A are loaded in sequence into the registers for the dimensions B, C and D.
- the equalizer adapts for a period of time in an attempt to open the eye. During this time the co-efficient registers are updated from the adaptation engine.
- the error term for each dimension is monitored to determine success and when the error converges to a very small value this indicates that the eye has been opened.
- the transformation process is performed for each of the channels B, C and D.
- ⁇ ,- are the coefficients of the equalizer on dimension A (as shown in Fig. 4) and C ; (k) axe the taps at the output of the transform function assuming the search index has value k.
- magnitude responses for the equalizer coefficients on dimension A and for 7 different transformations are illustrated.
- group delays for the equalizer coefficients on dimension A and for 7 different transformations are illustrated.
- the invention is particularly advantageous where some of the dimensions are used for non-IID (non independently identically distributed) coding and at least one is used for
- the receiver of the invention can be used to open the eye in an IID dimension and to apply the coefficients of this to the non-IID dimension(s). This transform is applicable because, although the coding is not random in non-IID other factors such as cable length are similar. Thus, the coefficients of the IID dimension are applicable to the non-IID dimension(s).
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