Patent ID: 7283591
Filing Date: 2007-10-16
Classification: H03M,H04B

Abstract:
1. A method of decoding a plurality of variable-length codewords in a stream of data bits, the method comprising: presenting at a plurality of code detectors a data window comprising a number of bits of said stream of data bits; reading data from each of a plurality of memories that are associated with respective code detectors, the data being read from different memory addresses of each memory, wherein each different memory address corresponds with a different, partially overlapping, portion of the data window; outputting a possible result from each of said plurality of code detectors, the possible results each comprising the data read from the code detector's respective memories; and determining which of said plurality of possible results comprises an actual result, wherein said actual result comprises a length of a codeword in said number of bits of said stream of data bits.