Patent Document ID: 9641195
Application ID: 14577531

Base Claim:
1. A trellis coded modulator (TCM) for generating an encoded word from an input word, the TCM comprising: a single encoder, wherein the single encoder comprises: a first logic branch configured to generate a data portion of the encoded word; and a second logic branch, coupled in parallel with the first logic branch, and configured to generate a corresponding parity portion of the encoded word sequentially after the generation of the data portion of the encoded word, wherein the second logic branch comprises a first register configured to hold a final bit of the input word until after the generation of the parity portion of the encoded word.

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Claim 4:
4. The TCM of claim 1 , further comprising: a convolutional encoder comprising the first and second logic branches; and a modulator configured to modulate each of the bits of the data and parity portions of the encoded data word into a respective symbol.