Coded data generation or conversion – Digital code to digital code converters – To or from code based on probability
Patent
1991-05-15
1992-11-10
Williams, Howard L.
Coded data generation or conversion
Digital code to digital code converters
To or from code based on probability
341106, 371 44, H03M 1312
Patent
active
051627973
ABSTRACT:
The inventive VITERBI decoder employs a memory for delivering a new path-metric and path selecting information. The memory stores path-metrics and path selecting information corresponding to all combinations of all possible values of input data, path-metric and control signal. The memory has its address lines connected with an input data output line, branch information output line and output line for a metric of the past.
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Hamada Toshimasa
Murata Junichi
Mitsubishi Denki & Kabushiki Kaisha
Williams Howard L.
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