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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2005
Applicants:
Eran Pisek, Plano, TX (US);
Jasmin Oz, Plano, TX (US);
Yan Wang, Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A reconfigurable Viterbi decoder comprising a reconfigurable data path and a programmable finite state machine that controls the reconfigurable data path. The reconfigurable data path comprises a plurality of reconfigurable functional blocks including: i) a reconfigurable branch metric calculation block; and ii) a reconfigurable add-compare-select and path metric calculation block. The programmable finite state machine executes a plurality of context-related instructions associated with the reconfigurable Viterbi decoder.