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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2018
Ibiquity Digital Corporation, Columbia, MD (US);
Paul J. Peyla, Elkridge, MD (US);
Brian W. Kroeger, Sykesville, MD (US);
Ibiquity Digital Corporation, Columbia, MD (US);
Abstract
A radio receiver comprises physical layer circuitry and processor circuitry. The physical layer circuitry receives quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) symbols via a plurality of subcarriers included in a broadcast radio signal. Each received QAM symbol is a complex symbol comprising multiple bits of encoded source information. The processing circuitry demodulates the received data symbols, generates a constellation sample for each received QAM symbol, generates a soft metric for each bit of encoded information of the received QAM symbols using the constellation sample, and multiplies the soft metric by a channel state information (CSI) weight to produce a Log-likelihood Ratio (LLR) approximation for each bit of encoded information of the received QAM symbols.