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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 03, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Aleksandar Kavcic, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Jose M. F. Moura, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Assignee:
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03D 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03D 1/00 ;
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a method of determining branch metric values for branches of a trellis for a Viterbi-like detector. The method includes the step of selecting a branch metric function for each of the branches at a certain time index. The method also includes the step of applying the selected function to a plurality of time variant signal samples to determine the metric values.