Abstract: A receiver is disclosed, wherein a re-ordering means comprises a multiplexer, a finite-state machine, and a plurality of buffers. the finite-state machine is arranged to control the multiplexer to load the buffers from a bus such that the output of the buffers is directly decodable by the decoder. A receiving method is also disclosed, comprising the steps of: determining a transmission mode and a bus configuration; entering an initializing state of branching of a finite-state machine according to said determined transmission mode and bus configuration; performing transitions between state of the said finite-state machine for each received set of soft data provided on a bus; multiplexing said soft data to a plurality of buffers in dependence on the state of said finite-state machine; and writing said multiplexed data into said plurality of buffers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for decoding data, said method using windows (WID) of input data. The invention is characterized in that it comprises for a current window the steps of:—Performing a forward recursion, wherein said forward recursion is initialized with a forward state metric vector (a) from the upper stake (STK) of the previous window of the same step of the previous iteration, a window (WID) comprising a lower and an upper stake (STK), and—Performing a backward recursion, wherein said backward recursion is initialized with a backward state metric vector (b) from the lower stake (STK) of the next window of the same step of the previous iteration. Use: Receiver in a communication system.

Abstract: A receiver is disclosed, wherein a re-ordering means comprises a multiplexer, a finite-state machine, and a plurality of buffers. The finite-state machine is arranged to control the multiplexer to load the buffers from a bus such that the output of the buffers is directly decodable by a decoder A receiving method is also disclosed, comprising the steps of: determining a transmission mode and a bus configuration; entering an initializing state of branching of a finite-state machine according to said determined transmission mode and bus configuration; performing transitions between states of said finite-state machine for each received set of soft data provided on a bus; multiplexing said soft data to a plurality of buffers in dependence on on the state of said finite-state machine; and writing said multiplexed data into said plurality of buffers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for decoding data, said method using windows (WID) of input data The invention is characterized in that it comprises for a current window the steps of:—Performing a forward recursion, wherein said forward recursion is initialized with a forward state metric vector (a) from the upper stake (STK) of the previous window of the same step of the previous iteration, a window (WID) comprising a lower and an upper stake (STK), and—Performing a backward recursion, wherein said backward recursion is initialized with a backward state metric vector (b) from the lower stake (STK) of the next window of the same step of the previous iteration.