Patent ID: 7961781

Claim:
A system for performing dispersion compensation on an electromagnetic signal received over a communication channel, the electromagnetic signal bearing information at a symbol rate comprising: an interleaved analog to digital converter (“ADC”) block, wherein the interleaved ADC block is configured to generate a plurality of digitally sampled signals from the electromagnetic signal; an interleaved equalizer block, wherein the interleaved equalizer block is configured to digitally process each of the digitally sampled signals generated by the ADC block to generate a plurality of digitally equalized signals; a multiplexer, wherein the multiplexer is configured to aggregate the digitally equalized signals into a composite output signal; a timing recovery block, wherein the timing recovery block is configured to determine a desired sampling phase and provide the desired sampling phase to the ADC block; and a plurality of phase interpolators, each phase interpolator being configured to provide, based on the desired sampling phase, a respective clock signal to the interleaved ADC, the interleaved ADC being further configured to use each respective clock signal to generate one or more of the plurality of digitally sampled signals.