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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 1984
Filed:
Jun. 14, 1982
Peter M Dollard, Highlands, NJ (US);
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a decoder (10) for convolutional self-orthogonal codes which includes a multistage syndrome register (16) and is responsive to two separate threshold levels. The first threshold level, as in prior art arrangements, includes a first majority logic circuit (24) connected to selected stages of the syndrome register and functions to correct the information bits (X.sub.1 -X.sub.7) currently being processed. Instead of also using this majority logic circuit to correct the syndrome register, as in the prior art, the present invention includes a second majority logic circuit (28), which operates at a different threshold level than the first and functions to correct the selected stages of the multistage syndrome register.