Methods, receivers and equalizers having increased computational efficiency

摘要

Metrics associated with each branch from a previous hypothesized trellis state to each respective possible current trellis state in a DFSE equalizer can be calculated. In particular, a common portion of branch metrics can be calculated that is common to each of the branch metrics from the previous hypothesized state to each of the current possible states, and difference variables representing a difference between the common portion of the branch metrics and each of the branch metrics from the previous hypothesized state to each of the current possible states can also be calculated. The common portion of the branch metrics and each of the difference variables can then be combined to provide a respective metric for each of the possible current states.