US 12,003,355 B2
Digital signal symbol decision generation with corresponding confidence level
Oz Harel, Ness Ziona (IL); Hananel Faig, Jerusalem (IL); and Yair Yakoby, Kfar Shmuel (IL)
Assigned to Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., Yokneam (IL)
Filed by Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., Yokneam (IL)
Filed on Jun. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/850,406.
Prior Publication US 2023/0421418 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 25/03 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/20 (2006.01); H04L 27/01 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 25/03987 (2013.01) [H04L 1/0054 (2013.01); H04L 1/203 (2013.01); H04L 27/01 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A digital receiver comprising:
an equalization component to:
receive a signal comprising a sequence of samples corresponding to symbols; and
generate an equalized signal with an estimated sequence of symbols corresponding to the signal; and
a decision generation component to:
receive the equalized signal;
identify a first set of symbols of at least a portion of one or more blocks of the equalized signal;
generate a first vector of a first sequence of the first set of symbols; and
generate a second vector of a second sequence of the first set of symbols; and
generate, based at least in part on the first vector and the second vector, a decision comprising a sequence of one or more bits that represent each symbol of the sequence of symbols and a confidence level corresponding to the decision.