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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2002
Alexander G. Macinnis, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jose′ R. Alvarez, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sheng Zhong, Fremont, CA (US);
Xiaodong Xie, Fremont, CA (US);
Vivian Hsiun, Yorba Linda, CA (US);
Alexander G. MacInnis, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jose′ R. Alvarez, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sheng Zhong, Fremont, CA (US);
Xiaodong Xie, Fremont, CA (US);
Vivian Hsiun, Yorba Linda, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
System and method of data unit management in a decoding system employing a decoding pipeline. Each incoming data unit is assigned a memory element and is stored in the assigned memory element. Each decoding module gets the data to be operated on, as well as the control data, for a given data unit from the assigned memory element. Each decoding module, after performing its decoding operations on the data unit, deposits the newly processed data back into the same memory element. In one embodiment, the assigned memory locations comprise a header portion for holding the control data corresponding to the data unit and a data portion for holding the substantive data of the data unit. The header information is written to the header portion of the assigned memory element once and accessed by the various decoding modules throughout the decoding pipeline as needed. The data portion of memory is used/shared by multiple decoding modules.