Automatic equalizer capable of surely selecting a suitable sample timing a method for generating sampling clock used for the sample timing and a recording medium usable in control of the automatic equalizer

摘要

An automatic equalizer has a sampling-clock producing arrangement which is for, before selecting a sample timing, producing a sampling clock at the rate of L times of that after selecting, and after selecting the sample timing, producing a tap-coefficient selection signal according to the sample timing, and a sampling clock at the rate of 1/L times of that before selecting, according to the sample timing. In the sampling-clock producing arrangement, demodulation components are obtained in absolute values of impulse-response signals with respect to L sample timings, respectively. A selecting arrangement selects the sample timing by the use of the demodulation components. The impulse-response signals are produced in response to a sampled received-signal obtained by sampling a received signal with the sampling clock.