Patent ID: 7447438
Filing Date: 2008-11-04
Classification: H03M,H04B

Abstract:
1. In an optical transceiver that is communicatively couplable to a host computing system, the optical transceiver including at least one analog to digital converter, a system memory, and at least one processor, a method for the optical transceiver to perform calibration of digital diagnostics information prior to communicating with the host computing system, the method comprising the following: an act of obtaining digital samples from an analog signal, wherein the digital samples include predictable error introduced by operation of the optical transceiver; an act of executing microcode using the at least one processor, the microcode including one or more predefined rules configured to at least partially remove the predictable error from the digital samples, to thereby cause the optical transceiver to perform the following: an act of calibrating the digital samples such that the predictable error is at least partially removed from the digital samples using the one or more predefined rules.