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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2003
Applicants:
Lior Ophir, Herzlia, IL;
Itay Lusky, Hod Hasharon, IL;
Inventors:
Lior Ophir, Herzlia, IL;
Itay Lusky, Hod Hasharon, IL;
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present application describes a method of implementing a Viterbi algorithm (VA) for trellis coded modulation (TCM) decoding in communication equipment. According to an embodiment, a branch metric is calculated by adding the absolute value of the real and imaginary parts of a complex vector resulting from the subtraction of a received symbol and a constellation point that is the closest to the symbol in each subset.