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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2000
Mitchell D. Trott, Mountain View, CA (US);
Tibor Boros, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
ArrayComm, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided that yields bandwidth efficient low bit rate communication of digital signals in a noisy channel. According to one aspect of the present invention, the invention includes demultiplexing a received input bit stream to divide it into a first block and a second block, convolutionally coding the first block, block coding the second block, mapping the convolutionally coded first block to a sequence of three-bit symbols, so that the bits of the convolutionally coded first block make up one bit of each three-bit symbol, mapping the block coded bits of the second block to the sequence of three-bit symbols, so that the bits of the block coded second block make up two bits of the three-bit symbol, and mapping the three-bit symbols to a phase shift keyed constellation.