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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2016
Applicant:
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Inventors:
Yuan-Mao Chang, San Jose, CA (US);
Engling Yeo, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/11 (2006.01); H03M 13/25 (2006.01); H03M 13/00 (2006.01); H03M 13/37 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/112 (2013.01); H03M 13/1105 (2013.01); H03M 13/1111 (2013.01); H03M 13/255 (2013.01); H03M 13/3715 (2013.01); H03M 13/616 (2013.01); H03M 13/6337 (2013.01); H03M 13/6508 (2013.01); H03M 13/6561 (2013.01); H03M 13/6577 (2013.01); H03M 13/1102 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided, in accordance with an embodiment, a method of decoding codewords in conjunction with a low-density parity-check (LDPC) code that defines variable nodes and check nodes, the method comprising receiving a codeword over a data channel; evaluating quality of the data channel; and iteratively updating values of the variable nodes to decode the codeword; wherein the values of the variable nodes are updated at different levels of numeric precision depending on the evaluated quality of the data channel.