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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2008
Filed:
May. 06, 2003
Applicants:
Stefan Müller, Mönchweiler, DE;
Alexander Kravtchenko, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Marten Kabutz, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Inventors:
Stefan Müller, Mönchweiler, DE;
Alexander Kravtchenko, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Marten Kabutz, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Assignee:
Thomson Licensing, Boulogna-Billancourt, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention relates to a Reed-Solomon decoder and to a method of soft decision decoding of Reed-Solomon codes, wherein a syndrome polynomial, an erasure polynomial, and a modified syndrome polynomial are computed on-the-fly in parallel by iteratively updating coefficients of these polynomials.