Patent ID: 8495448

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: an input to receive a signal that includes a first portion and a second portion such that the second portion is a repetition encoded version of the first portion, wherein the second portion is either a duplicate of the first portion or a modified version of the first portion as generated by processing the first portion with a predetermined or fixed function or sequence; and an log-likelihood ratio (LLR) circuitry to: calculate a first plurality of log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) corresponding to the first portion of the signal; and calculate a second plurality of LLRs corresponding to the second portion of the signal; and a decoder to employ a third plurality of LLRs, based on chase combining of the first plurality of LLRs and the second plurality of LLRs, in accordance with decoding the signal to make at least one bit estimate of at least one information bit encoded within the signal; and wherein: the LLR circuitry and the decoder implemented within an integrated circuit.