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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1993
Filed:
Jun. 26, 1992
Po Tong, Fremont, CA (US);
Peter A Ruetz, Redwood City, CA (US);
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and a structure are provided for decoding Huffman codes using a random access memory having a size less than twice the total number of codewords decodable. Under this method, the number of leading 1's in a Huffman codeword and the bits of the Huftman code word other than the leading 1's ('remainder') are combined to form an address into the random access memory. Using the fact that, for a given number of leading 1's in a Huffman code, the possible remainder of the Huffman code is no longer than a predetermined number of bits, the size of the random access memory necessary for decoding such Huffman codes can be made optimally small.