• DocumentCode
    1341715
  • Title

    History of equalization 1860-1980

  • Author

    Falconer, David

  • Author_Institution
    CARLETON UNIVERSITY
  • Volume
    49
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    42
  • Lastpage
    50
  • Abstract
    Operators of the first transatlantic telegraph cable in 1858, and subsequent cables from the mid-1860s, noticed that they had to transmit Morse code dots and dashes very slowly to be understood at the other end.1 This phenomenon, due to smearing out of pulses by the capacitive effects of very long cables, had been predicted by William Thomson (more about him below), and was one of the first instances of the need for equalization of digital signals.
  • Keywords
    Decision feedback equalizers; History; Research and development; Signal processing; Telegraphy; Transversal filters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications Magazine, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0163-6804
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MCOM.2011.6035816
  • Filename
    6035816
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1341715