Digital signal processor optimized for decoding a signal encoded in accordance with a Viterbi algorithm

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PATENT NO 5633897
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08558745

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An improved DSP has two internal data buses with two MAC units each receiving data from its respective data bus. A shifter is interposed between the multiply unit and the ALU and accumulate unit. The improved DSP also has a multiplexer interposed between one of the MAC units and the two data buses. The improved DSP is optimized to decode a received digital signal encoded in accordance with the Viterbi algorithm, wherein the DSP calculates a first pair of binary signals C.sub.2n and C.sub.2n+1 a Viterbi butterfly based upon a second pair of binary C.sub.n and C.sub.n+m/2, and a transitional signal a, in accordance with: C.sub.2n =minimum (C.sub.n +a, C.sub.n+m/2 -a); C.sub.2n+1 =minimum (C.sub.n -a, C.sub.n+m/2 +a).

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ATMEL CORPORATION1600 TECHNOLOGY DRIVE SAN JOSE CA 95110

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Fettweis, Gerhard P Dresden, DE 8 175
Touriguian, Mihran Hercules, CA 6 86

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