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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1997
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A Viterbi decoder generates a branch metric table from first and second data signals taken at two sample times and provides selected branch metrics to an add/compare/select circuit in response to branch indices from a branch index generator. The branch metrics in the branch metric table are the sixteen combinations of the sum of the first and second parallel data signals at first and second sample times and the inverse of such signals. The branch index generator generates the branch indices in response to a received state from the add/compare/select circuit, convolutional code polynomials and the possible states of a radix-4 trellis. The add/compare/select generates a survivor path decision based on the selected branch metrics.