Doug's original signature analysis technique calculates the equalizer coefficients from scratch, not by incremental adaptation. Noise is averaged out by integrating successive coefficient determinations. So, when there is a concealed-path / revealed-path change in the echo spectrum, the equalizer can update very rapidly without having to wait for errors to accumulate. Later work uses a parallel equalizer approach, with decision feedback being used to reduce long post-echoes. Allen ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Shutt" <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx> To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 3:32 PM Subject: [opendtv] Re: 20060616 Free Friday Fragments (Mark's Monday Memo) > That might work as long as the change in multipath isn't very great from > snapshot to snapshot. Calculating taps is a recursive process and if there > were drastic changes from "look" to "look" it would require several > iterations to recalculate the proper taps to cancel out the new echo > ensemble. That eats up both time and energy. > > John > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > Once synchronized, the receiver comes on about 2000 symbols prior to its > > allocated time slot, or 186 usec prior, to train itself. Right after > > this training it receives the data, then goes back to sleep mode. > > Perhaps once in awhile, the receiver looks for the training segment > > again, to correct its internal clock. > > > > That should save a lot of power. > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: > > - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org > > - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.