Patent ID: 8867603

Claim:
A method comprising: setting, at a receiver, a configurable analog equalizer to a first high-pass frequency response that is too moderate to compensate for a low-pass frequency response of a physical link coupling a transmitter and the receiver; activating, at the receiver, a Feed Forward Equalizer (FFE) comprising a set of coefficients having a minimum configuration of a cursor coefficient and a first pre-cursor coefficient; activating, at the receiver, a Decision Feedback Equalizer (DFE) comprising a set of coefficients having a minimum configuration of a first post-cursor coefficient; and setting the configurable analog equalizer to a high-pass frequency response that is more intense than the first high-pass frequency response until the first post-cursor coefficient of the DFE substantially equals an absolute value of a quotient obtained by dividing the first pre-cursor coefficient of the FFE by the cursor coefficient of the FFE.