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EE290C - Spring 2011 CTLE Adaptation Block Diagram

The document discusses adaptive equalization techniques for communication links. It covers several topics: 1) It introduces common adaptive filtering algorithms like LMS, RLS, and steepest descent that are used for equalizer adaptation. 2) It notes that link channel changes are relatively slow, so the key is to minimize overhead from adaptation using simple adaptation schemes. 3) It discusses practical issues with implementing LMS in links, such as how to determine the error signal and estimate it precisely given resolution limits of real ADCs.

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EE290C - Spring 2011 CTLE Adaptation Block Diagram

The document discusses adaptive equalization techniques for communication links. It covers several topics: 1) It introduces common adaptive filtering algorithms like LMS, RLS, and steepest descent that are used for equalizer adaptation. 2) It notes that link channel changes are relatively slow, so the key is to minimize overhead from adaptation using simple adaptation schemes. 3) It discusses practical issues with implementing LMS in links, such as how to determine the error signal and estimate it precisely given resolution limits of real ADCs.

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CTLE Adaptation Block Diagram

EE290C – Spring 2011

Lecture 9: Equalizer Adaptation

Elad Alon
Dept. of EECS

EE290C Lecture 8 4

Equalizer Adaptation Adaptive FIR Filters: LMS


• Many adaptive filtering algorithms
• LMS, RLS, steepest descent, interior point method, …
• Each with different convergence properties

• Link channel changes relatively slow


• Key is to minimize overhead from adaptation

• Simple adaptation schemes generally preferred

EE290C Lecture 8 2 EE290C Lecture 8 5

Simplified CTLE Adaptation Practical Issues with LMS in Links


• How do you know what the error is relative to?
• I.e., what is your reference?

• How precisely do you know the error?


• I.e., how many bits of information does each sample of
the error give you?

EE290C Lecture 8 3 EE290C Lecture 8 6


Finding the Error Finding dLev: Dual Loop
• Stojanovic et al, JSSC 2005
• Error is relative to the “data level” (dLev):
errorinitp-p Ref. Level (dLev)

Initial eye

• But, high resolution estimate of the error


means high-resolution ADC…
EE290C Lecture 8 7 EE290C Lecture 8 10

Sign-Sign LMS Eye Diagram Evolution


errorinitp-p Ref. Level (dLev)

dLevinit
dLevmid
errorinitp-p dLevend

… …
Initial eye

Initial eye Mid-way equalized Equalized

EE290C Lecture 8 8 EE290C Lecture 8 11

MMSE vs. ZFE Dual Loop Convergence


PAM2, 5Gb/s, 4taps Tx Equalization
100 1000

800
80
main tap
tap weight [mV]

600
dLev [mV]

60
400

40 200
post2
0
20 pre1
-200
post1
0 -400
0 50 100 150 200 0 50 100 150 200
number of updates number of updates

• Both loops are converge within wide range 0.1 –


10x of relative speeds
• Hard to prove analytically

EE290C Lecture 8 9 EE290C Lecture 8 12


Practical Issues: Data Correlations Practical Issues: DFE Loop Unrolling

EE290C Lecture 8 13 EE290C Lecture 8 16

Spectrally Gated Adaptation


• Leibowitz et al, ISSCC 2007

EE290C Lecture 8 14

Practical Issues: Dither/Resolution


tap

post2
0
pre1
-200
post1
-400
0 50 100 150 200
number of updates

• Can’t set tap values perfectly


• Always have some residual quantization error

• Better include this error in link budget


• Acts as quantization noise
• Tap resolution must increase with # of taps
• Noise accumulates
EE290C Lecture 8 15

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