Waveshaping transversal filter and method utilizing the same for data transmission over coaxial cable

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A transversal filter (20) has a plurality of variable delay lines each having multiple voltage controlled delay stages in series with one of the variable delay lines having a clock input (54) and the other , variable delay lines having data signal inputs. A phase comparator (150) is coupled to the output of two non-adjacent stages of the variable delay lines having the clock input. A feed-back circuit (25) is coupled to the comparator and provides voltage signals to the voltage controlled delay stages of all of the variable delay lines, such that adjacent stages in a particular delay line are delayed in time equal fractions of a clock cycle from each other, and so that all delay lines …