| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090172502 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TURBO CODE DECODING - A method and apparatus for turbo code decoding are provided to reduce memory consumption during calculation of state metrics. In an embodiment of a turbo code decoder, a natural recursion unit comprises a plurality of add-compare-select (ACS) units performing natural recursion operations to generate a state metric. The original state metric is then converted to a differential metric before being stored into a memory device. The differential metric contains less data than the state metric so that memory consumption is reduced. To restore the original state metric from the differential metric, a plurality of revival units operating in parallel is provided. Thereby, the state metric is reacquired from the differential metric, and a Log Likelihood Recursion (LLR) operation is accordingly performed by an LLR unit. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172504 | MEMORY ARCHITECTURE FOR VITERBI DECODER AND OPERATING METHOD THEREFOR - The Viterbi decoder is an essential module in a communication system, in which the power and the decoding latency are restricted. In the present invention, a power efficient low latency survivor memory architecture and an operating method for the Viterbi decoder are disclosed by providing a plurality of trace-forward units, a plurality of first signal selecting units, a plurality of second signal selecting units and a third signal selecting unit to reduce the power consumption by decreasing the exchange times of contents in the trace-forward units. Thus, the present invention is suitable for use in mobile communication devices which require low power consumption. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20100241911 | ADDRESS GENERATOR OF COMMUNICATION DATA INTERLEAVER AND COMMUNICATION DATA DECODING CIRCUIT - An address generator of a communication data interleaver and a communication data decoding circuit are provided. The address generator includes a first operation unit and a second operation unit. The first operation unit receives a first parameter and a first operation result. The first operation unit performs a recursive operation according to the first parameter and the first operation result and outputs the first operation result. The second operation unit receives the first operation result, a second operation result, and a second parameter. According to a transmission mode signal, whether the second operation unit generates a second operation result is determined by performing a recursive operation according to the first operation result, the second parameter, and the second operation result, or by calculating the first operation result and the second parameter. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20110038433 | CODEBOOK SEARCHING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure propose multiple codebook searching methods for a receiver in a communication system, wherein the communication system uses a codebook having L pre-coding matrices. First, L matrices are calculated according to the L pre-coding matrices, and the L matrices are inversed mean square error matrices of the L pre-encoding matrices. Then, diagonal cofactors or determinants of at least S matrices of the L matrices are calculated, and a pre-coding matrix used by the receiver is found according to the maximum cofactors of the diagonal of the at least S matrices or ratios between the maximum cofactors of the diagonals and the determinants of the at least S matrices. | 02-17-2011 |