[amsat-bb] LDPC for FPGAs to do DVB-S2/X on SDRs - so many letters! What does it mean?

[Joseph B. Fitzgerald]

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> LDPC stands for low density parity check coding.


I suppose I am a little biased since I am writing this from Cambridge, MA, but it is too bad we don't call it "Gallager Coding"

http://news.mit.edu/2010/gallager-codes-0121
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Explained: Gallager codes | MIT News<http://news.mit.edu/2010/gallager-codes-0121>
In 1993, scientists achieved the maximum rate for data transmission — only to find they’d been scooped 30 years earlier by an MIT grad student.
news.mit.edu


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