FIELD: physics; radio.
SUBSTANCE: proposed is a tunable turbo decoder having N processing units. Each of the N processing units receives samples of programmable input data and decodes the received samples of programmable input data. The N processing units work independently from the condition that, the first processing unit can be selected for decoding received samples of programmable input data when the second processing unit may be switched off. Several processing units selected for decoding samples of programmable input data determine the rate of transmitting received samples of programmable input data. The tunable turbo decoder also has N input data memory devices which receive samples of programmable input data and N external information memory devices which store external information generated by N processing units. Each of the N processing units can read from each of the N external information memory devices and record into each of the N input data memory devices and each of the N external information memory devices.
EFFECT: efficient encoding and reduced power consumption.
21 cl, 5 dwg
