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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 1995
Filed:
May. 26, 1993
Rajan Bhandari, Basingstoke, GB;
Sony United Kingdom Limited, Staines, US;
Abstract
A serial data decoding system is described in which a state machine (FIG. 5) is provided having a plurality of branching hierarchies of states, each branching hierarchy of states corresponding to a different decoding table. The state machine incorporates a memory 72 storing control data words (FIG. 7). A latch 74 stores the most recent control data word to be output from the memory. The memory 72 is addressed with a read address formed from a concatenation of the latched value 84, a table selecting word 86, Y/C and a received bit of serial data. When the state machine enters a state 88 corresponding to valid code, the current control data word is output as an identifier of that valid code.