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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 02, 1993
Josephus A Kahlman, Eindhoven, NL;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Viterbi detector for a channel having a memory length 1, where no more than two survivors with an associated difference metric are updated. In the prior-art Viterbi detector of this type the new difference metric is derived using a saturation function from the previous difference metric. If the amplitude of the received signal differs from the values assumed for the calculation of the difference metric, the performance of the prior-art detector will rapidly degrade. In the detector according to the invention the new difference metric is derived from a saturation function of the previous difference metric, with the size of the linear region being dependent on the magnitude of the amplitude of the received signal.