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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2005
Applicants:
Wen Gao, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Joshua Lawrence Koslov, Hopewell, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Wen Gao, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Joshua Lawrence Koslov, Hopewell, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Thomson Licensing, Issy les Moulineaux, FR;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for reducing power consumption in an iterative decoder. A memory stores a decoded codeword for a current iteration and an iteration terminator compares the decoded codeword for the current iteration to the codeword from prior iterations, and further terminates the iterations when a confidence value is achieved.