Patent ID: 6944237
Filing Date: 2005-09-13
Classification: G01R,H04B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A symbol decoder included in a receiver configured to receive information encoded in accordance with a multi-level symbolic scheme and over a multi-dimensional transmission channel, the symbol decoder comprising: an input that is operative to receive an input signal over the multi-dimensional transmission channel; a first slicer that is operative to process the input signal with respect to a first one of two disjoint one-dimensional symbol-subsets; a second slicer that is operative to process the input signal with respect to a second one of the two disjoint one-dimensional symbol-subsets; and wherein the first slicer outputs a first error term with respect to the first one of the two disjoint one-dimensional symbol-subsets, and the second slicer outputs a second error term with respect to the second one of the two disjoint one-dimensional symbol-subsets.