Patent Document ID: 7773668
Application ID: 10762864
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. Receiver circuitry for adaptively equalizing a data signal, the receiver circuitry comprising: equalization implementation circuitry that includes a selectable number of taps, wherein the equalization implementation circuitry operates on the data signal; programmable circuitry that is programmed by configuration data with a first value corresponding to a first number of taps; processing circuitry that computes a second value corresponding to a second number of taps; and selection circuitry that selects, based on a control signal, one of the first and second values as the selectable number of taps at the time the programmable circuitry is being programmed by the configuration data, wherein the selection circuitry selects one of the first and second values only once while the equalization implementation circuitry operates on the data signal; and wherein the selectable number of taps of the equalization implementation circuitry corresponds to the selected one of the first and second values.