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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Won-hee Chung, Suwon, KR;
Jun-jin Kong, Seongnam, KR;
Taek-won Kwon, Taegukwangyeok, KR;
Dae-won Kim, Taegukwangyeok, KR;
Jun-rim Choi, Taegukwangyeok, KR;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd., Kyungki-Do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03D 1/00 ; H04L 2/706 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03D 1/00 ; H04L 2/706 ;
Abstract
A two-step Viterbi algorithm decoder for tracing the survivor path and the concurrent path and updating a soft decision value, including a soft output Viterbi algorithm state metric unit (SOVA-SMU), which is constructed of registers and multiplexers, instead of a memory for storing survivor information for all states.