The adaptive adjustment of digital data receivers using pre-detection filter

This thesis is concerned with the adaptive adjustment of digital data receivers employed m synchronous serial data transmission systems that use quadrature amplitude modulation The receiver employs a pre-detection filter that forms the first part of a decision feedback equalizer or else is used ahead of a near maximum-likelihood detector. The filter is ideally adjusted such that the sampled impulse response of the channel and filter is minimum phase. [Continues.]