Abstract:
PURPOSE: A soft decision decoder, and a log-likelihood ratio calculation apparatus during soft decision decoding and its method are provided to improve decoding performance of a received signal by performing an optimum signal decoding. CONSTITUTION: A plurality of log-likelihood ratio calculation apparatus(100) uses a received signal(y) containing noise inputted from a receiver to perform a soft decision decoding as to an orthogonal amplitude modulated signal, and calculate a log-likelihood ratio of a positive(+) signal and a negative(-) signal. A subtract(112) determines a difference of log-likelihood ratio of the positive signal and the negative signal being output from the plurality of log-likelihood ratio calculation apparatus. And a comparator(114) receives the calculation result of the log-likelihood ratio difference of the subtract and then determines the orthogonal amplitude modulated signal as positive(+) or negative(-) according as the calculation result is positive or negative number.
Abstract:
PURPOSE: A depuncture structure for radix-4 branch metric operation in high-rate viterbi decoder and a method of the same are provided to enable a depuncture for a radix-4 branch metric operation of all punctured codes simply by using a clock a rate of which is equal to a clock rate of an inputted I, Q bit stream. CONSTITUTION: A first and a second FIFO(First In First Out)(110) store an I-signal sequentially. A third and a fourth FIFO(110) store a Q-signal sequentially. A first and a second multiplexor(120) multiplex a signal inputted from the first and the third FIFO(110). A third and a fourth multiplexor(120) multiplex a signal inputted from the second and the fourth FIFO(110). A first radix-2 branch metric calculator(130) performs a depuncture function about a signal inputted from the first and the second multiplexor(120). A second radix-2 branch metric calculator(130) performs a depuncture function about a signal inputted from the third and the fourth multiplexor(120).