Two types of relaxation polarisation are combined to analyse the frequency
spectrum of the complex permittivity of MnZn ferrite. The dielectric loss o
f the toroid core has been calculated based on this polarisation model. Res
ults show that the dielectric loss accounts for 25% of the total loss in th
e megahertz region.The effect of whitening the input data in a multilayer p
erceptron-based decision feedback equaliser (DFE) is evaluated. It is shown
from computer simulations that whitening of the received data employing ad
aptive lattice channel equalisation algorithms improves the convergence rat
e and bit error rate performances of multilayer perceptron-based DFEs.