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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 1993
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1991
Po Tong, Fremont, CA (US);
Peter Ruetz, Redwood City, CA (US);
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A structure and a method are provided for fast-decoding a Huffman code using a leading 1's detector for recognizing the number of leading 1's in the Huffman codeword up to a predetermined maximum, so as to provide a class number in accordance with the number of leading 1's recognized, a first logic circuit for providing a 'remainder' by removing from the Huffman codeword a number of bits in accordance with the class number, and a second logic circuit for recognizing a special class. In one embodiment, decoding is accomplished by accessing a storage device using an address formed by a table number, a subclass number derived from the class number and all of the bits in the remainder except the least significant bit.