AN ITERATIVE DECODER AND AN ITERATIVE DECODING METHOD FOR A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

An iterative decoder and iterative decoding method. In the iterative decoder, a first adder has a first port for receiving information symbols and a second port; a first component decoder is coupled to the first adder, for receiving first parity symbols and decoding the information symbols using the first parity symbols and an output signal of the first adder; a first subtractor has a third port for receiving the output of the first component decoder, and a fourth port; an interleaver coupled to the output of the second adder, for interleaving the decoded information symbols received from the first component decoder; a second component decoder receives the output of the interleaver and second parity symbols and decodes the information symbols of the interleaver output using the received signals; a deinterleaver deinterleaves the output of the second component decoder; a third adder has a fifth port for receiving the output of the deinterleaver and a sixth port for receiving an inversed output of the second adder, the output of the third adder connected to the second port and an inverted output of the third adder connected to the fourth port; a hard decision device converts the decoded symbols received from the first component decoder to binary information bits; an error detector checks error in the binary information bits received from the hard decision device and generates a no error signal if no errors are detected; and an output buffer stores the binary information bits received from the hard decision device and outputs the stored binary information bits in response to the no error signal.