Patent ID: 7586931

Claim:
A method for performing Turbo decoding operations in a Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver of a wireless terminal, the method comprising: receiving an RX RF signal; converting the RX RF signal to a baseband RX signal; producing a Turbo code word from the baseband RX signal; a Turbo decoding module of the RF transceiver: receiving the Turbo code word; decoding the Turbo code word to a yield a Media Access Control (MAC) packet having a MAC packet header and a MAC packet payload; decoding the MAC packet header to determine boundaries of a plurality of Radio Link Control (RLC) Packet Data Units (PDUs) of the MAC packet payload; extracting a corresponding plurality of RLC PDU headers and a corresponding plurality of RLC PDU payloads from the RLC PDUs; and writing the decoded MAC packet header, the extracted RLC PDU headers, and the decoded RLC PDU payloads to memory.