ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,006, issued on March 11, was assigned to NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Decoder for decoding data in a PAM-2M format, decoder device using the decoder, and receiver using the decoder device" was invented by Pen-Jui Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yen-Po Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoder includes a demultiplexer and a number (P) of ADCs, where Pless than=2. The demultiplexer receives a to-be-decoded data signal that is in a PAM-2M format, and demultiplexes the to-be decoded data signal into a number (P) of demultiplexed data signals, where Mless than=2. The ADCs respectively receive the demul...