US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on June 23 for "Decoding method and decoder device used in flash memory controller capable of reducing design complexity and circuit costs" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,048, issued on June 23, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Decoding method and decoder device used in flash memory controller capable of reducing design complexity and circuit costs" was invented by Shiuan-Hao Kuo (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding method includes: using a syndrome calculation check circuit to calculate a syndrome value of variable node Vi of a parity check matrix based on multiple input bits; rotating the syndrome value of variable node Vi into the direction of variable node Vi+1 to generate an estimated syndrome value of variable node Vi+1; rotating the sy...