Stmicroelectronics S.r.l.

Sgs-thomson Microelectronics S.r.l.

Filippo Brenna

Angelo Dati

Davide Giovenzana

Giorgio Betti

Augusto Andrea Rossi

Roberto Sannino

Luca Reggiani

Roberto Ugioli

Giancarlo Andolina

Giuseppe De Marzi

A receiver in a data read channel has an input terminal for receiving an input signal provided by a transmitter of the data read channel, and produces an output signal at an output terminal. The receiver includes a finite impulse response (FIR) filter coupled to the input terminal and having filter coefficients capable of being adapted, an interpolated timing-recovery circuit coupled to an output of the FIR filter, the timing-recovery circuit having an output signal coupled to the output terminal of the receiver, and a timer circuit coupled to the output terminal and feedback connected to the timing-recovery circuit, wherein the coefficients of the timing-recovery circuit are dynamically adapted using a cost weighted function through a signal power spectrum of the data read channel.

Equalization and interpolated timing recovery for a partial response channel

A system for decoding digital signals subjected to block coding includes a post-processor that corrects the codewords affected by error, identifying them with the most likely sequence that is a channel sequence and that satisfies a syndrome check. The post-processor is a finite-state machine described by a graph that represents the set of error events. The post-processor evolves in steps through subsequent transition matrices, deleting at each step the paths that accumulate an invalid number of error events or an excessive number of wrong bits, paths that accumulate a total reliability higher than a given threshold, paths with an invalid check on the received sequence, and paths that reveal an invalid syndrome after having reached a maximum number of events.

Process for decoding signals and system and computer program product therefore

An effective organization and transferring of data among the functional blocks of an integrated system of a read channel of data recorded on DVD-Rom, DVD-Ram, DVD-R or CD Rom for performing Reed-Solomon decoding including off-line heroic correction, or deinterleaving, Reed-Solomon decoding is provided. The integrated system includes an input buffer, an interface with a microcontroller bus, a Reed-Solomon decoder, an embedded RAM accessed through a 17-bit bus, a descrambling and EDC control block for DVD modes of operation, a descrambling block for CD codes of operations, a data output interface, and a timing control block. The system permits the de coding of the input data acquired through the input buffer at a rate of up to four-times the reference bit rate of DVD formatted data using a clock for accessing the embedded RAM having a frequency half that of the clock that is used in the Reed-Solomon decoder, while reducing the number of accesses to the embedded RAM needed to perform the decoding.

Reed-Solomon decoding of data read from DVD or CD supports

System for decoding code words in the EFM-PLUS and/or EFM format in which an enumeration block makes it possible to associate in a one-to-one manner with each of the code words a numerical value from a practically continuous set of numerical values. The numerical value, possibly summed with an offset value, by an address generator, addresses a read-only memory in which are stored information codes, each of which is associated, as decoded information, with one of the code words.

System for decoding the EFM and EFM-plus format in optical disc (CD and

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Filippo Brenna