Patent ID: 7720017
Filing Date: 2010-05-18
Classification: H03M,H04L

Abstract:
1. In a portable wireless communications user terminal (UT), a method for parallel path turbo decoding, the method comprising: accepting a coded stream having a first order of information packets; demultiplexed the coded stream into first coded and second coded information streams; turbo decoding the first coded stream, generating a first decoded information stream; turbo decoding the second coded stream, generating a second decoded information stream, asynchronously with respect to the first decoded stream; combining the first and second decoded streams into a combined stream having the first order of decoded information packets; and selectively supplying a clock signal to enable at least the turbo decoding of the first coded stream, wherein the clock signal is supplied when the first coded stream having information packets to be decoded is supplied and is interrupted when the first coded stream is not supplied.