摘要 |
Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and circuits that provide for LDPC decoding and/or error correcting. For example, various embodiments of the present invention provide LDPC decoder circuits that include a soft-input memory, a memory unit, and an arithmetic unit. The arithmetic unit includes a hardware circuit that is selectably operable to perform a row update and a column update. In such cases, a substantial portion of the circuitry of the hardware circuit used to perform the row update is re-used to perform the column update.
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