Patent ID: 9450744
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: H03L,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A system comprising: a plurality of receive channel circuits, each receive channel circuit configured to receive an input signal of a set of input signals, each input signal representing a symbol of a codeword of a vector signaling code; a plurality of sample units configured to generate a set of signal sample values based on the set of input signals; a rank-order unit configured to provide a set of rank order values comprising a respective rank order value for each signal sample value, each rank order value indicative of a relative magnitude of the corresponding signal sample value with respect to all remaining signal sample values; a decoder unit configured to receive the set of rank order values and to responsively determine symbols of a codeword; and, a control processor configured to receive the set of rank order values and to process at least two rank order values from the set of rank order values, and to generate a channel receiver control signal for at least one receive channel circuit corresponding to one of the at least two rank order values.