Turbo code: Difference between revisions

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* The key insight is the realization that instead of producing a stream of binary digits from the signal it receives, the front-end of the decoder can be designed to produce a likelihood measure for each bit.

* The nitty-gritty of turbo codes is the design of the decoder (and the coder) so that it can exploit this additional information.

===The encoder===