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Serial Viterbi decoder

US4583078A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 13, 1984
Grant dateApr 15, 1986
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Expiry dateNov 13, 2004

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03M13/41
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A serial Viterbi decoder in which a single set of circuits is sequentially used for all the encoder states to calculate the maximum probability path, as measured against received signals, of unencoded signal sequences to reach each encoder state. The path to any encoder state having the maximum probability is traced back to output the oldest encoded signals.

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