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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 26, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kirk Twardowski, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Silicon Engineering, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
341 65 ; 341 67 ;
Abstract
A parallel speculative decoder is described. The decoder includes a set of partial decoders and an additional decoder. The partial decoders are aligned at different positions of a portion of an input data stream and speculatively and simultaneously decode symbols (e.g., codewords) having less bits than a longest symbol length. The additional decoder decodes symbols in the event the first partial decoder does not produce valid decoding results.