Patent attributes
An illustrative integrated receiver circuit embodiment includes: a set of analog-to-digital converters that sample a receive signal in response to staggered clock signals to provide a parallel set of sampled receive signals; an equalizer that converts the parallel set of sampled receive signals into a parallel set of equalized signals; one or more quantizers that derives symbol decisions from the parallel set of equalized signals; a digital timing circuit that generates the staggered clock signals based on the parallel set of equalized signals; and a clock skew adjustment circuit that provides a controllable skew of at least one of said staggered clock signals relative to at least one other of the staggered clock signals. A monitor circuit is included to provide a reliability indicator for the symbol decisions, as is a controller that determines a dependence of the reliability indicator on the controllable skew.
