ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,474, issued on May 6, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Signaling compression and decompression associated with a partially unrolled decision feedback equalizer (DFE)" was invented by Ehud Nir (Etobicoke, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for signaling compression inside a partially unrolled decision feedback equalizer (DFE) are described. The signaling compression associated with partially unrolled DFE results in multiplexers selecting a 1-bit output value from one of two 1-bit input values, which are decoding the actual multi-bit candidate levels and transforming the selected 1-bit ou...