Patent 6862315 was granted and assigned to Advanced Micro Devices on March, 2005 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A network receiver is configured for receiving a modulated carrier signal representing a data frame from a network transmitter via a network medium, the receiver includes an adaptive equalizer with a finite impulse response filter for filtering the received signal. The filter utilizes a plurality filter coefficients. A cache stores a plurality of sets of coefficients for use by the filter and the equalizer selects a set of coefficients for receiving the data frame.