Inventors:
Quang Nguyen - Allentown PA, US
Assignee:
IComm Technologies Inc. - Wilmington DE
International Classification:
H03M013/03
Abstract:
The invention encompasses several improved Turbo Codes Decoder method and apparatus to provide a more suitable, practical and simpler method for implementation a Turbo Codes Decoder in ASIC or DSP codes. (1) Two pipelined Log-MAP decoders are used for iterative decoding of received data. (2) A Sliding Window of Block N data are used on the input Memory for pipeline operations. (3) The output block N data from the first decoder A are stored in the RAM memory A, and the second decoder B stores output data in the RAM memory B, such that in pipeline mode Decoder A decodes block N data from the RAM memory B while the Decoder B decodes block N data from the RAM memory A at the same clock cycle. (4) Log-MAP decoders are simpler to implement in ASIC and DSP codes with, only Adder circuits, and are low-power consumption. (5) Pipelined Log-MAP decoders architecture provides high speed data throughput, one output per clock cycle.