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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2004
Applicants:
Joseph Paul Lauer, Mountain View, CA (US);
Alan Corry, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Joseph Paul Lauer, Mountain View, CA (US);
Alan Corry, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 27/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A Viterbi decoding demapping scheme for a wireless communications device processor substantially implemented on a single CMOS integrated circuit is described. By using log and antilog techniques, simplified multiplication and division operations in the branch metric calculation may be performed. A fully integrated receiver circuit with Viterbi decoder with branch metric computation consumes less circuit space and power than conventional solutions.