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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2007
Applicants:
Andrea Ancora, Nice, FR;
Giuseppe Montalbano, Villeneuve, FR;
Inventors:
Andrea Ancora, Nice, FR;
Giuseppe Montalbano, Villeneuve, FR;
Assignee:
ST-Ericsson SA, Geneva, CH;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention related to a turbo decoder comprising SISO decoding modules each other interconnected in a feedback control scheme having scaling modules for applying a scaling factor to extrinsic information delivered by said SISO decoding modules. The turbo decoder comprises a selection module for adaptively selecting said scaling factor based on a number of decoding iterations of the turbo decoder.