Patent attributes
In a data-precessing receiver, a sampling circuit generates a plurality of samples of an incoming signal and stores the plurality of samples one after another in a first storage buffer. A first subset of the plurality of samples are transferred from the first storage buffer to a decoder circuit in response to each assertion of a first control signal, and a second subset of the plurality of samples are transferred from the first storage buffer to a tap weight update circuit in response to each assertion of a second control signal, the second strobe signal being asserted asynchronously with respect to the first control signal. The tap weight update circuit generates a plurality of updated tap weights based, at least in part, on the second subset of the plurality of samples.