US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on Aug. 11 for "Decoder circuit and decoding method capable of reducing number of read/write of memory to reduce power consumption" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,614, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Decoder circuit and decoding method capable of reducing number of read/write of memory to reduce power consumption" was invented by Duen-Yih Teng (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding method includes: providing channel value memory to store input data as a channel value; providing sign memory to store a sign value; providing gradient descent bit memory to store differential information of a channel value; providing variable node unit to generate a first output value and a second output value according to the channel valu...