Channel decoding method and tail biting convolutional decoder

Abstract

The disclosure provides a channel decoding method and a tail biting convolutional decoder. The method comprises: the tail biting convolutional decoder performs add-compare-select processing on metric values of 2N states according to input data to be decoded and N zeros input after the data to obtain final cumulative metric values of the 2N states, and stores selection result of add-compare-select processing, wherein N is the constraint length of tail biting convolutional coding; the tail biting convolutional decoder starts to backtrack from one state of the 2N states according to the selection result to obtain intermediate decoding result after the add-compare-select processing is finished; the tail biting convolutional decoder outputs the bits except the last N bits of the intermediate decoding result as decoded result of the data to be decoded. The tail biting convolutional decoder comprises an add-compare-select module, a backtracking module and an outputting module.

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