摘要 |
A decoding circuit has a nonlinear equalizer which employs a signal conditioning algorithm for conditioning a partial response sampled signal to eliminate intersymbol interference. The inventive decoding circuit has an analog-to-digital converter for sampling an analog signal, a linear equalizer for adjusting the amplitude and phase relations of the sampled signal, a nonlinear equalizer for conditioning the sampled signal and outputting a partial response sampled signal having two nonzero samples, and a partial response maximum likelihood detector, for detecting the partial response sampled signal having two nonzero samples.
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