Patent ID: 7471751

Claim:
A method for performing channel equalization comprising: receiving a signal from a channel associated with inter-symbol interference; processing the received signal to effectively apply a plurality of linearly independent impulse responses to the received signal to produce a plurality of intermediate signals, the processing comprising providing the received signal to an inductor, capacitor, resistance (LCR) network representing a Bessel filter having a bandwidth within an order of magnitude as a data transmission rate associated with the received signal, the LCR network comprising a plurality of inductors connected in series to form an inductor chain and a plurality of capacitors each connected between a position along the inductor chain and a common position, and generating, as the intermediate signals, a plurality of inductor signals representing currents through the plurality of inductors and a plurality of capacitor signals representing voltages across the plurality of capacitors; scaling each of the plurality of intermediate signals by each of a plurality of multiplier factors to produce a plurality of scaled signals; and combining the plurality of scaled signals to produce a resulting signal corresponding to an equalized version of the received signal in order to reduce effects of the inter-symbol interference.