Patent ID: 8370112

Claim:
An evaluation circuit for processing digital signals, the evaluation circuit processing an input data word and outputting an output data word, comprising: an evaluation circuit arrangement for processing digital signals, the evaluation circuit processing an input data word and outputting an output data word, the evaluation circuit including a plurality of signal paths, including a processing arrangement for processing the input data word by at least one of the signal paths, an assigning arrangement for assigning a set of parameters to each of the signal paths, wherein different processing of the input data word is provided by the particular signal path resulting in at least one processed data word as a function of parameters of the particular signal path, wherein information about the particular signal path which performs the processing is appended to the at least one processed data word at a time of processing, and wherein the at least one processed data word is selected from the output data word for further processing, on the basis of the appended information; and a threshold value switch which selectively assigns the input data word to one of the signal paths.