US Patent 7454693 LDPC decoder

An LDPC decoder having a determined number of processing units operating in parallel, storage circuitry capable of containing first words containing a juxtaposition of messages of a first type, and second words containing a juxtaposition of messages of a second type, a message provision unit capable of providing each processing unit with a message of the first type or a message of the second type, and a message write unit capable of writing, into the storage circuitry, first words or second words. The message provision unit is capable of providing a message at a position in a word which depends on the word or the message write unit is capable of writing each message at a position in the word which depends on the word.