Patent ID: 7333581
Filing Date: 2008-02-19
Classification: H03M

Abstract:
1. A method for processing data for a decoding operation, said method using windows of data, each window comprising data to be written and to be read and having a size the method comprising: writing a current window of data into a unique buffer in a first address direction, said first address direction being an opposite direction from an address direction of the writing of a preceding window of data, said writing of said current window beginning at an address where no data of the preceding window of data have been written, said unique buffer having a length greater than a maximum size of the windows of data; and reading the data of said preceding window of data from said unique buffer from a reading address equal to a last written address of the same preceding window of data, said reading of the data of said preceding window of data being made simultaneously to said writing of the current window of data, and in the same first address direction.