摘要 |
A quadrature amplitude modulation trellis coded modulation (QAM-TCM) decoding apparatus and the related method that receives and decodes a QAM signal. The QAM-TCM decoding apparatus includes an in-phase least significant bit (LSB) decoding path, which includes a in-phase Viterbi decoder for executing a decoding procedure on at least one LSB corresponding to an in-phase component of the QAM signal, a quadrature-phase LSB decoding path, which includes a quadrature-phase Viterbi decoder for executing a decoding procedure on at least one LSB corresponding to a quadrature-phase component of the QAM signal, and a most significant bit (MSB) decoding path for executing a decoding procedure on MSB portions corresponding to the in-phase or the quadrature-phase of the QAM signal. In doing so, the apparatus and method reduces the complexity of the decoding calculation.
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