US 6,982,659 B2
Method and apparatus for iterative decoding
Ba-Zhong Shen, Irvine, Calif. (US); Kelly B. Cameron, Irvine, Calif. (US); and Steven T. Jaffe, Irvine, Calif. (US)
Assigned to Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, Calif. (US)
Filed on Jan. 02, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/751,148.
Application 10/751148 is a continuation of application No. 10/219858, filed on Aug. 15, 2002, granted, now 6,686,853.
Application 10/219858 is a continuation of application No. 09/900222, filed on Jul. 06, 2001, granted, now 6,518,892.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/246425, filed on Nov. 06, 2000.
Prior Publication US 2004/0140915 A1, Jul. 22, 2004
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H03M 7/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 341—50 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
17. An iterative decoder comprising:
means for iteratively decoding a received signal;
means for generating a signature from values of an Nth decoding iteration;
means for comparing the signature of the Nth iteration to a signature of an (N-1)th iteration; and
means for stopping the process of iterative decoding if the signature of the (N-1)th iteration is equal to the signature of the Nth iteration.