The Viterbi Algorithm, the elegant 41-year-old logical tool for rapidly eliminating dead end possibilities in reception of digital data, has a new application to go alongside its ubiquitous daily use ...

In recent years programmable-logic devices have found homes in applications ranging from high-performance wired products, such as DSL access multiplexers (DSLAMs), to the emerging 3G wireless formats.

Clearly, wireless LAN (WLAN) systems are a hot topic in the design community. With 802.11b taking off, and 802.11g and 802.11a coming quickly, much attention has been placed on building WLAN access ...

FEC (forward-error-correction) techniques correct errors at the receiver end of digital communications systems. In contrast with error-detection and retransmission ...