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Efficient data storage arrangement for far-end echo canceller

US5473600A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 20, 1994
Grant dateDec 5, 1995
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Expiry dateMay 20, 2014

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B3/237
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An efficient data storage scheme for an echo canceller for a high-speed modem provides for storing in bulk memory, instead of a trellis-encoded codewords, unencoded words of lesser length in bits. For a v.32terbo modem operating at 19,200 bps, for example, the unencoded word has only eight bits as compared to nine bits for the trellis-encoded codeword. Therefore, one memory word (16 bits) can be used to store two unencoded words, resulting in memory savings of 50%. More particularly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, full-duplex, high-speed data communications using echo cancellation is performed by storing in memory transmit data represented in a first form, at predetermined intervals substantially equal to a round-trip delay time, reading out transmit data from memory and trellis-encoding the transmit data to produce trellis-encoded transmit data, and performing echo cancellation using data derived from the trellis-encoded transmit data. In accordance with another embodiment of the invention, an apparatus for high-speed data communications includes first circuitry, having a first encoder, for producing first signal element data from multi-bit data symbols, an ec…

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