US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on Oct. 6 for "Decoder circuit, flash memory controller, and decoding method" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,800, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Decoder circuit, flash memory controller, and decoding method" 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: receiving and storing input data as a channel value in a channel value memory in a form of codeword; generating a posterior probability and a variable-to-check message according to a specific chunk of the channel value; converting the variable-to-check message from variable node domain into check node domain to generate a converted variable-to-check message; using a check node ...