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Parallel signal decoding method

US6694473B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateJun 22, 2000
Grant dateFeb 17, 2004
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Expiry dateJan 6, 2022

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B20/1833
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The invention discloses a signal decoding method for C3 decoding on a data storage medium. The data storage medium contains a lot of sectors, and each sector contains two C3 codes. Each C3 code contains a plurality of P codes and Q codes. The syndrome operation for an (N+1)th code and an error-correction for an N-th code are pipelined. An address for the (N+1)th code minus a predetermined value is an address for the N-th code.

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