US Patent Issued to Maxlinear on Jan. 27 for "Low-power block code forward error correction decoder" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,544, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Maxlinear Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Low-power block code forward error correction decoder" was invented by Youzhe Fan (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Jining Duan (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a forward error correction decoder comprising syndrome computation circuitry, key-equation solver circuitry, and search and evaluator circuitry. The syndrome computation circuitry may comprise a plurality of syndrome compute units connected in parallel. The syndrome computation circuitry may be dynamically configurable to vary a quantity of the syndrome compute units used for p...