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Method and apparatus for communicating interleaved data

US5241563A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 10, 1992
Grant dateAug 31, 1993
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Expiry dateAug 10, 2012

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03M13/33
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An interleaver processes information in a pseudorandom order to provide pseudorandom interleaved data for communication to a deinterleaver. The pseudorandom interleaved data is processed at the deinterleaver in a pseudorandom order corresponding to that used at the interleaver means, to recover the original information. The pseudorandom processing at the deinterleaver is synchronized with the pseudorandom processing at the interleaver on a trial and error basis. In one embodiment, full synchronization occurs when a Viterbi decoder receiving data from the deinterleaver has a renormalization rate within a designated threshold and when enough synchronization words are detected in data output from the deinterleaver to meet a predetermined criterion. In another embodiment, a timer is used to initiate a new starting address for the pseudorandom processing at the deinterleaver during successive time intervals. Synchronization is achieved when a start address is found that results in the detection of enough synchronization words in data output from the deinterleaver to meet a predetermined synchronization criterion.

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