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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2003
Applicant:
Bartosz Krzysztof Wasilewski, Letchworth Garden City, GB;
Inventor:
Bartosz Krzysztof Wasilewski, Letchworth Garden City, GB;
Assignees:
MStar Semiconductor, Inc., Caymans Island, KY;
MStar Software R&D, Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
MStar France SAS, Issy les Moulineaux, FR;
MStar Semiconductor, Inc., , TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A wireless-communications unit has a receiver chain including a codec decoding the output of a rake receiver. Soft decisions passing from the rake receiver to the codec are scaled. The scaling factor can be tuned by monitoring a function based on the cumulative probability distribution function of the scaled soft decisions.