US Patent Issued to Intel on March 25 for "SERDES circuit automatic gain control and convergence" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,724, issued on March 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"SERDES circuit automatic gain control and convergence" was invented by Itamar Levin (Holon, Israel) and Tali Warshavsky (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Automatic Gain Control (AGC) SERDES circuit may be used to provide improved gain control for SERDES operation. This AGC SERDES circuit uses an initial gain convergence to determine and store an initial gain level. Once the initial gain convergence is complete, the AGC SERDES circuit uses a signal peak tracking to reduce or prevent saturation events. By setting the gain target based on tr...