US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Dec. 2 for "Discrete-time linear equalizer for discrete-time analog front-end" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,659, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Discrete-time linear equalizer for discrete-time analog front-end" was invented by Johannes G. Ransijn (Salem, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a discrete-time linear equalizer circuit. The discrete-time linear equalizer circuit comprises a sample and hold circuitry including multiple switched-capacitor circuits. The multiple switched-capacitor circuits include at least a switched-capacitor circuit of a pre-cursor tap, a switched-capacitor circuit of a cursor tap, and a switched-capacitor circuit of a post-cursor tap. A cloc...