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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2007
Applicant:
Tod D. Wolf, Richardson, TX (US);
Inventor:
Tod D. Wolf, Richardson, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This invention provides the correct Viterbi decode traceback starting index is obtained for all constraint lengths and frame sizes. Reverse transpose operations that depend on the last active add-compare-select unit a cascade block of the state metric update process. This last active add-compare-select unit controls selection of T counter signals used in the decode.