MULTI-CHANNEL DECODER ARCHITECTURE

摘要

An example method of receiving a data packet includes receiving a data packet at a channel receiver of at least one channel receiver each associated with a channel, providing the data packet to a data packet identification block that corresponds to the channel receiver, validating the data packet at the data packet identification block, and providing the validated data packet to an available decoder block of at least one decoder block capable of performing one or more decoding functions, where a quantity of the decoder blocks is less than a quantity of the data packet identification blocks and optimized according to one or more goals. If no decoder block is available and the validated data packet is a higher priority data packet, a decoder block processing a lower priority data packet may be forced to stop processing the lower priority data packet and process the higher priority data packet.

主权项

1. A radio receiver configured to receive data packets, comprising:
a channelizer bank of at least one channel receiver each associated with a channel configured to receive an incoming data packet; and a decoder bank comprising:
a data packet identification bank comprising at least two data packet identification blocks, or comprising at least one data packet identification block with at least one data packet identification block comprising two or more sub-identification blocks, each data packet identification block associated with a corresponding channel to validate an incoming data packet received on the corresponding channel; anda decoder block bank comprising at least one decoder block, each decoder block capable of performing one or more decoding functions, and a quantity of the decoder blocks being less than a quantity of the data packet identification blocks and optimized toward one or more goals,wherein a data packet validated by any one of the at least one data packet identification blocks is to be provided to an available one of the at least one decoder blocks for further decoding.