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

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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 [http://news.mit.edu/sites/mit.edu.newsoffice/files/styles/og/public/images/2...]http://news.mit.edu/2010/gallager-codes-0121 Explained: Gallager codes | MIT Newshttp://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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