Equalisation in an ADSL receiver

摘要

A data transmission system which trains its internal equalizers both in an initialization phase and in a normal communication session. In a transmitter unit, a modulation unit modulates a data signal to be transmitted. This signal is sent out to a telephone subscriber line by a transmitter after being added a cyclic prefix by a prefixing unit. A receiver unit accepts the data signal at its receiver portion. The received signal, however, has been impaired because of non-ideal transmission characteristics of the subscriber line. The receiver unit employs a processor which serves as an equalizer to confine the signal impairment within a period of cyclic prefix of each symbol. The receiver unit further comprises a target channel which provides reference characteristics for use in adapting the processor to the current line characteristics. At an initialization stage, a first training unit performs training by tuning both the target channel and processor. When a normal communication session begins, a second training unit performs training by mainly tuning the processor. <IMAGE>