Patent ID: 7145945

Claim:
A receiver for delivering a data sequence (a k ) at a data rate 1/T from a received sequence (r n ) sampled at a clock rate 1/Ts, asynchronous to the data rate 1/T, the receiver comprising: an adaptive equalizer (EQ) for delivering an equalized sequence (y n ) from said received sequence (r n ), said equalizer operating at the clock rate 1/Ts and being controlled via an equalizer's adaptation loop, a sampling rate converter (SRC 1 ) for converting said equalized sequence (y n ) into an equivalent input sequence (x k ) to be provided to an error generator ( 21 ) at the data rate 1/T via a timing recovery loop, an error generator ( 21 ) for delivering, from said input sequence (x k ), the data sequence (a k ) and an error sequence (e k ) to be used in both loops, orthogonal control functionality means ( 40 ) for deriving a condition for the adaptive equalizer (EQ) to fulfill in order to decrease interference between said equalizer's adaptation loop and said timing recovery loop.