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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2007
Aditya Ramamoorthy, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Aditya Ramamoorthy, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide multi-level signal memory with LDPC and interleaving. Thus, various embodiments of the present invention provide a memory apparatus that includes a memory block comprising a plurality of memory cells, each memory cell adapted to operate with multi-level signals. Such a memory apparatus also includes a low density parity check (LDPC) coder to LDPC code data values to be written into the memory cells and an interleaver adapted to apply bit interleaved code modulation (BICM) to the LDPC coded data values to generate BICM coded data values. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.