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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2006
Yeon-gon Cho, Sowon-si, KR;
Jun-haeng Cho, Seongnam-si, KR;
Dong-won Kwak, Seoul, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A Viterbi decoder for executing a trace-back work in parallel and a decoding method. The Viterbi decoder includes a branch metric calculator which calculates a branch metric from a branch code passing each state on a trellis diagram and a predetermined input code, at least one adder/comparator/selector which adds the branch metric to a path metric of a previous state, detects a minimum value of the addition result values as a path metric of a current state, and detects state transition values corresponding to a path from which the minimum value has been detected, a path metric memory which stores the path metric detected by the at least one adder/comparator/selector, a plurality of trace-back memories which sequentially store the state transition values detected by the at least one adder/comparator/selector, and if the plurality of trace-back memories store the state transition values by a preset trace-back depth, a trace-back controller executes a trace-back work in parallel in each of the plurality of trace-back memories.