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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2006
Applicant:
Catherine A. French, Olympia, WA (US);
Inventor:
Catherine A. French, Olympia, WA (US);
Assignee:
Sigma Designs, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method enable the fast decoding of a front end of data (e.g., a header) that is convolutionally encoded by treating the front end as a block code. The system and method receive the convolutionally encoded data; extract a finite sized block from the data; and decode the extracted block using a block error correction decoding method. A Viterbi decoder can then be used to decode the remainder of the encoded data based on the decoded block.