Abstract:
Apparatus comprising a pre-filter rake architecture with various features designed to, in at least some circumstances, to lessen the data processing burden associated with the architecture. In one embodiment, the pre-filter aspect can be disabled.
Abstract:
The channel response is refined by zeroing a number of taps in accordance with different kind of thumbholes. Further, it is proposed to optimize an objective function and retrieve the best corresponding tap vector sequence.
Abstract:
A method of producing soft decisions for a signal, wherein a model provides an expression for an LLR for the signal, the LLR expression is dependent on noise power in the signal and can be rendered in a form independent of the noise power, wherein the method comprises evaluating the noise power independent expression using values from the signal to produce soft decisions, calculating a weight expressing the noise power affecting a soft decision relative to the noise power affecting at least one other soft decision and applying the weight to its respective soft decision.
Abstract:
A method of calculating branch metrics for a butterfly in a trellis of a MAP-genre decoding algorithm, the method comprising providing initialised branch metrics for the transitions in the butterfly and incrementing the branch metrics with a group of data values corresponding to said transitions in accordance with control signals derived from the butterfly index and one or more polynomials describing tap positions of the encoding equipment to whose operation the trellis relates, wherein said group comprises systematic bit and parity bit values.
Abstract:
Apparatus arranged to analyse a signal comprising a series of symbols, the apparatus comprising means for calculating a metric of said signal, filter means for filtering said signal, means for calculating a metric of said filtered signal and means for comparing said metrics, wherein the filtering means is arranged to track a spectral feature of the signal and maintain that feature within the pass band of the filtering means. According to one aspect, the apparatus uses an adaptation of the Modified Goertzel Algorithm, wherein the frequency response of the filter is adapted to take into account the frequency offset estimate for each block of K samples.