Patent ID: 8300679

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, at a switching-signal-to-voltage-converter, a lower-power mode transceiver switching signal; generating a common-mode compensation voltage adjustment; combining the common-mode compensation voltage adjustment with a noisy common-mode signal at an analog combiner to generate a stabilized common-mode voltage, wherein the noisy common-mode signal is associated with a medium dependent interface output signal, and wherein the lower power mode is associated with an Ethernet class AB mode; receiving, at a digital switching distortion canceller, Ethernet data along with an Ethernet class AB transceiver switching signal; generating an output, wherein the digital switching distortion canceller includes a first plurality of canceller elements, each associated with an Ethernet data signal family sharing signals of the same type, and a second plurality of canceller elements, each associated with an AB transceiver switching signal family, wherein outputs from the first and second pluralities of canceller elements are combined to generate the output of the digital switching distortion canceller; and combining, at a digital domain combiner, the output of the digital switching distortion canceller with a digital signal to generate a corrected output signal.