DECODING APPARATUS AND DECODING METHOD

Disclosed herein is a decoding apparatus that performs soft-decision decoding on a linear block code, the apparatus including a hard-decision decoder configured to perform hard-decision decoding on a received word using a hard-decision decoding algorithm; and a soft-decision decoder configured to pe...

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Main Authors HATTORI MASAYUKI, YOKOKAWA TAKASHI, MIYAUCHI TOSHIYUKI
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 18.06.2009
Subjects
BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
CALCULATING
CODE CONVERSION IN GENERAL
CODING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
DECODING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ELECTRICITY
PHYSICS
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Summary:Disclosed herein is a decoding apparatus that performs soft-decision decoding on a linear block code, the apparatus including a hard-decision decoder configured to perform hard-decision decoding on a received word using a hard-decision decoding algorithm; and a soft-decision decoder configured to perform, using a soft-decision algorithm, soft-decision decoding merely on a received word for which the hard-decision decoder has failed in the hard-decision decoding.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20080335802