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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2002
Tod D. Wolf, Richardson, TX (US);
Antonio F. Mondragon-torres, Richardson, TX (US);
Alan Gatherer, Richardson, TX (US);
Tod D. Wolf, Richardson, TX (US);
Antonio F. Mondragon-Torres, Richardson, TX (US);
Alan Gatherer, Richardson, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
This invention describes implementation approaches for sliding window turbo decoders. Sliding windows are used for both the beta and alpha state metric calculations. Initialization of the beta/alpha prolog sections with data from a previous iteration is employed in conjunction with a reduced length prolog section. For subsequent sliding windows the trellis values of the prolog sections are dynamically initialized based upon data derived from the signal to noise ratio of the calculated extrinsic data or the difference between the two most probable trellis states.