Pragmatic decoder and method therefor
US6078625A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 20, 1997 |
| Grant date | Jun 20, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 20, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L1/0057
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A communication system (11) uses concatenated coding in which an inner code is configured to match the needs of an outer code. The inner code is implemented through a pragmatic trellis coded modulation encoder (18) and decoder (34). A parser (50) of the encoder (18) distributes fewer than one user information bit per unit interval (66) to a convolutional encoder (58) which generates at least two convolutionally encoded bits for each user information bit it processes. Exactly one of the convolutionally encoded bits is phase mapped (56) with at least two user information bits during each unit interval (66). The decoder (34) detects a frame sync pattern (48) inserted into the user information bits to resolve phase ambiguities. Phase estimates are convolutionally decoded (100) to provide decoded data estimates that are then used to selectively rotate the phase estimates prior to routing the phase estimates to a slice detector (118).
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