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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2003
Applicants:
Shidong Chen, Palatine, IL (US);
Jilian Zhu, Palatine, IL (US);
Xiaojun Yang, Palatine, IL (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Micronas Semiconductors, Inc., Palatine, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 5/159 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A DFE comprises a trellis decoder and a plurality of sub-filter pipelines. Each of the plurality of sub-filter pipelines is fed intermediate decoded symbols of one of the stages in a trace-back chain of a current decoding bank. The DFE output is formed by summing the plurality of sub-filter pipelines.