Soft decision digital communication apparatus

摘要

An apparatus for performing a soft decision function prior to convolutional decoding in a data communication system using differential quadrature-PSK or other transmission schemes is disclosed. A memory element coupled between a demodulator and the convolutional decoder in a receiver portion of the communications system performs the soft decision function. The memory element contains data organized using probability of occurrence and Log-Likelihood parameters for each potential combination of current and past received signal modulation quantized at a predetermined level.