SERIALIZER/DESERIALIZER WITH INDEPENDENT EQUALIZATION ADAPTATION FOR REDUCING EVEN/ODD EYE DISPARITY

A method for reducing a disparity between even and odd eye characteristics in recovered data includes: receiving an input serial data stream; performing independent data slicing of even and odd components in the serial data stream to generate corresponding even and odd discrete-time data samples, respectively; performing independent error slicing of even and odd components in the serial data stream to generate corresponding even and odd discrete-time error samples, respectively; deserializing the even and odd discrete-time data and error samples to generate the recovered data and recovered error, respectively; and controlling respective offsets for error slicing of the even and odd components independently so as to reduce the disparity between even and odd eye characteristics in the recovered data.