Patent ID: 8842721

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: means for determining a receiver decision feedback equalization coefficients; means for monitoring errors at said receiver; means for receiving an error threshold; means for adjusting said receiver decision feedback equalization coefficients; means for powering up said means for adjusting said receiver decision feedback equalization coefficients only when adjusting said receiver decision feedback equalization coefficients; means for powering down said means for adjusting said receiver decision feedback equalization coefficients when not adjusting said receiver decision feedback equalization coefficients; and: wherein means for monitoring errors at said receiver are selected from the group consisting of means for monitoring protocol errors, means for monitoring 64B/67B errors at said receiver, means for monitoring cyclic redundancy code errors and means for monitoring protocol errors and means for monitoring 8B/10B errors at said receiver, means for monitoring a lane check code word, and means for monitoring a lane check code word and means for monitoring 64B/67B errors at said receiver.