APPARATUS FOR ITERATIVE HARD-INPUT FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION DECODING

摘要

An apparatus for iterative hard-decision forward error correction decoding is described. A method comprises a binary receiver to convert an optical signal to an electrical signal, the electrical signal having a set of information symbols and a set of redundancy symbols, the set of redundancy symbols generated by different forward error correction (FEC) encoding schemes, and a first of a plurality of decoders coupled with the binary receiver and the plurality of decoders coupled together, each of the plurality of decoders to decode the set of information symbols with the set of redundancy symbols in accordance with the different FEC encoding schemes.