Patent ID: 8229035

Claim:
A system for recovering communicated information in a communication system, the system comprising: at least one digitizer for digitizing an analog received signal comprising the communicated information, thereby creating a digital received signal; at least one timing recovery circuit for performing timing regulation on a portion of said digital received signal according to a reference clock signal, thereby creating a regulated signal, wherein said regulated signal is passed to said at least one digitizer; at least one filter for bandwidth-limiting at least a portion of said digital received signal, thereby creating a bandwidth-limited signal; at least one feed forward equalizer for equalizing at least a portion of the bandwidth-limited signal to create an equalized signal; at least one converter for creating a data signal according to at least said equalized signal; at least one soft decision circuit for creating a soft decision signal according to said data signal, wherein said soft decision circuit cancels at least a tail-portion of said data signal in creating the soft decision signal; and wherein said data signal is inputted to said at least one timing recovery circuit for performing timing regulation on a portion of said digital signal, wherein said digital received signal is introduced to the at least one timing recovery circuit and a coarse timing regulation is provided to the digital received signal before said at least one feed forward equalizer is operative and before said data signal is initially introduced to the timing recovery circuit.