Patent 7826522 was granted and assigned to Intel on November, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for an automatic calibration circuit for a continuous-time equalizer (CTE). In some embodiments, the calibration circuit separately locks the direct (DC) voltage swing and the alternating (AC) voltage swing of a CTE to reference voltage.