An adaptive gain control with a variable step size for use in high-speed data communication systems

A high-precision adaptive gain control is an important function in high-speed data communication systems. The nonsymmetric statistics of the received signal results in a biased value of gain, particularly if 2B1Q line code is used, which contains a periodically repeated synchronization word, i.e., a Barker sequence. A bias-free gain is obtained using a step size that depends on the statistics of the received signal. The additional computations may be successfully approximated by shift-add operations.