H03M13/1111

RATE MATCHING FOR MULTI-SLOT UPLINK SHARED CHANNEL TRANSMISSION
20220385395 · 2022-12-01 ·

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of one or more sets of contiguous time domain resources for a multi-slot transmission occasion that spans at least multiple slots. The UE may select, for one or more codeblocks of a communication on the multi-slot transmission occasion, coded bits of a plurality of coded bits on a per slot basis for each of the multiple slots, wherein start locations for bit selection for each of the multiple slots are determined independently from one another. The UE may interleave the coded bits to form one or more interleaved encoded bit sequences of the one or more codeblocks. The UE may transmit the communication including the one or more interleaved encoded bit sequences. Numerous other aspects are described.

CONCATENATED ERROR CORRECTING CODES
20220385309 · 2022-12-01 ·

Systems and methods are provided for concatenated error-correcting coding. An apparatus may include a Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) decoder configured to perform an iterative LDPC decoding process on bits of an LDPC codeword, a Bose—Chaudhuri—Hocquenghem (BCH) decoder coupled to the LDPC decoder and a BCH scheduler coupled to the LDPC decoder and the BCH decoder. The LDPC codeword may be generated by LDPC encoding a Bose—Chaudhuri—Hocquenghem (BCH) codeword and the BCH codeword may be generated by BCH encoding a data unit. The BCH scheduler may be configured to determine whether a triggering condition for the BCH decoder is met after each iteration of the iterative LDPC decoding process and activate the BCH decoder to operate on an intermediate decoding result of the LDPC decoder if the triggering condition for the BCH decoder is met.

Data processing device
11513888 · 2022-11-29 · ·

A data processing device includes a plurality of variable nodes configured to receive and store a plurality of target bits; a plurality of check nodes each configured to receive stored target bits from one or more corresponding variable nodes of the plurality of variable nodes, check whether received target bits have an error bit, and transmit a check result to the corresponding variable nodes; and a group state value manager configured to determine group state values of variable node groups into which the plurality of variable nodes are grouped.

Data storage device

A data processing system includes a storage medium, and a controller including a data processing block, configured to receive data from a host, transmit the received data to the storage medium, read data from the storage medium in response to a read request from the host, and decode the read data by the data processing block according to multiple decoding modes. The data processing block includes a first decoder and a second decoder, and is configured to manage the first decoder and the second decoder to run the decoding for the read data, and activate a fast decoding having shorter latency than a normal decoding after a fast decoding condition is satisfied.

Memory system

A memory system includes a non-volatile memory and a controller. The controller is configured to perform iterative correction on a plurality of frames of data read from the non-volatile memory. The iterative correction includes performing a first error correction on each of the frames including a first frame having errors not correctable by the first error correction, generating a syndrome on a set of second frames that include the first frame, performing a second error correction on the second frames using the syndrome, and performing a third error correction on the first frame. Each of the frames includes user data and first parity data used in the first error correction, the first parity data of the first frame also being used in the third error correction.

Error correction decoder, error correction circuit having the same, and method of operating the same

Provided herein may be an error correction decoder, an error correction circuit having the error correction decoder, and a method of operating the error correction decoder. The error correction decoder may include a calculator configured to output an error correction message by performing an iterative decoding operation on a first codeword, a syndrome generator configured to generate a syndrome by calculating the error correction message and a parity check matrix and to output a number of iterations representing the number of times the iterative decoding operation has been performed, and an unsatisfied check node (UCN) value representing the number of unsatisfied check nodes in the syndrome, and a speed selector configured to output a speed code for controlling a speed of the iterative decoding operation depending on the number of iterations and the UCN value.

Controlling memory readout reliability and throughput by adjusting distance between read thresholds
20220374308 · 2022-11-24 ·

An apparatus for data storage includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to communicate with a memory device that includes (i) a plurality of memory cells and (ii) a data compression module. The processor is configured to determine a maximal number of errors that are required to be corrected by applying a soft decoding scheme to data retrieved from the memory cells, and based on the maximal number of errors, to determine an interval between multiple read thresholds for reading Code Words (CWs) stored in the memory cells for processing by the soft decoding scheme, so as to meet following conditions: (i) the soft decoding scheme achieves a specified decoding capability requirement, and (ii) a compression rate of the compression module when applied to confidence levels corresponding to readouts of the CWs, achieves a specified readout throughput requirement.

Neural Network Soft Information Detector in a Read Channel

Example systems, read channels, and methods provide bit value detection from an encoded data signal using a neural network soft information detector. The neural network detector determines a set of probabilities for possible states of a data symbol from the encoded data signal. A soft output detector uses the set of probabilities for possible states of the data symbol to determine a set of bit probabilities that are iteratively exchanged as extrinsic information with an iterative decoder for making decoding decisions. The iterative decoder outputs decoded bit values for a data unit that includes the data symbol.

Method for decoding low density parity check (LDPC)-coded signal, and terminal therefor
11595155 · 2023-02-28 · ·

Proposed is a method for a terminal to decode a signal. In particular, the method for a terminal to decode a signal comprises: a step for demodulating a first low density parity check (LDPC)-coded signal; and a step for decoding a second signal obtained from the first demodulated signal through a trained neural network. The second signal is obtained by using: an output sequence generated on the basis of the trained neural network; and a log likelihood ratio (LLR) sequence of the first signal.

MEMORY SYSTEM

A memory system includes a non-volatile memory and a controller. The controller is configured to perform iterative correction on a plurality of frames of data read from the non-volatile memory. The iterative correction includes performing a first error correction on each of the frames including a first frame having errors not correctable by the first error correction, generating a syndrome on a set of second frames that include the first frame, performing a second error correction on the second frames using the syndrome, and performing a third error correction on the first frame. Each of the frames includes user data and first parity data used in the first error correction, the first parity data of the first frame also being used in the third error correction.