System decoder having error correcting memories for high-speed data processing and transmission and method for controlling same

• US 6,158,039 A
• Filed: 01/15/1998
• Issued: 12/05/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jeong, Jong-Sik, Shim, Jae-Seong, Kim, Byung-Jun, Cho, Chan-Dong
• Primary Examiner(s): De Cady, Albert
• Assistant Examiner(s): LIN, SAMUEL K
• Application Number:
  US09/007,662
• Time in Patent Office: 1,055 Days
• Field of Search: 714/769, 714/770, 714/763, 369/30, 369/32
• US Class Current: 714/769
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/1813 by adding special bits or symbols to the coded information G11B20/1809 takes precedence

Abstract

A system decoder having error correcting memories for high-speed data transmission and a method for controlling the same. A system decoder of an optical disk reproducing apparatus having a descrambler for restoring scrambled data in the process of encoding data, includes first and second memories for correcting an error, and a memory controller for transmitting error-corrected data to the descrambler while data read and demodulated from the optical disk is written in one of the first and second memories, and error-correcting data written in the other memory while the demodulated and error-corrected data is written and read.

Claims

1. A system decoder of an optical disk reproducing apparatus having a descrambler for restoring scrambled data in the process of encoding data, said system decoder comprising:

first and second memories for correcting an error in the scrambled data; and

a memory controller for transmitting error-corrected data to said descrambler while data read and demodulate from said optical disk is written in one of said first and second memories, and error-correcting data written in the other one of said first and second memories while the demodulated and error-corrected data is written and read.

2. The system decoder as claimed in claim 1, wherein said memory controller performs error correction and data access in synchronization with an error correction synchronous signal.

3. The system decoder as claimed in claim 2, further comprising a single chip on which said first and second memories are formed.

4. The system decoder as claimed in claim 3, wherein said optical disk reproducing apparatus is a digital video disk player.

5. A method for controlling first and second error correcting memories of an optical disk reproducing apparatus, comprising the steps of:

alternatively writing one error correcting block in said first and second memories upon receiving demodulation data of data sectors each including main data, inner parity data and outer parity data;

error-correcting a corresponding one error correcting block; and

reading error-corrected data from one of said first and second memories when writing one error correcting block in the other one of said first and second memories.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein each of said first and second memories has a main data region, an inner parity data region and an outer parity data region, and said main data, inner parity data and outer parity data constituting a corresponding data sector are separately written upon receiving demodulation data of one of the data sectors.

7. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein said one error correcting block comprises 16 data sectors.

8. The method as claimed in claim 5, further comprising a single chip on which said first and second memories are formed.

9. An optical disk reproducing apparatus to decode data stored on an optical disk, comprising:

first and second memories to store the data read from the optical disk and correct errors in the data read from the optical disk; and

a memory controller to perform the error correction of the data in one of the first and second memories and simultaneously writing new data read from the optical disk into the other one of said first and second memories.

10. The optical disk reproducing apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein said memory controller reads error corrected data from the other one of said first and second memories prior to writing the new data therein, while simultaneously performing the error correction of the data in the one of said first and second memories.

11. The optical disk reproducing apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein each of said first and second memories is a static random access memory (SRAM).

12. The optical disk reproducing apparatus as claimed in claim 9, further comprising a descrambler to descramble the error corrected data read from each of said first and second memories.

13. The optical disk reproducing apparatus as claimed in claim 12, further comprising:

an optical pickup to read the data from the optical disk; and

a demodulator to demodulate the data read from the optical disk prior to storage in said first and second memories.

14. The optical disk reproducing apparatus as claimed in claim 12, further comprising a synchronous detector to detect a synchronous signal from the data read from the optical disk, wherein said memory controller performs the error correction in each of said first and second memories in accordance with said synchronous signal.

15. The optical disk reproducing apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein said memory controller writes the new data into the other one of said first and second memories in the form of a block having a plurality of data sectors, each data sector including main data, inner parity data, and outer parity data.

16. The optical disk reproducing apparatus as claimed in claim 15, wherein each block includes sixteen data sectors, wherein each data sector has 2064 bytes of main data, 130 bytes of inner parity data, and 172 bytes of outer parity data.

17. The optical disk reproducing apparatus as claimed in claim 15, wherein said memory controller writes the data into a predetermined position of a memory map of the other one of said first and second memories in units of words having two bytes.

18. The optical disk reproducing apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein said memory controller performs inner parity correction by rows of the data and then performs outer parity error correction by columns of the data, in the one of said first and second memories.

19. The optical disk reproducing apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein said memory controller calculates a syndrome, an error position and an error value of one row of the data in the one of said first and second memories by reading the data and parity of a predetermined number of bytes in units of words.

20. An optical disk reproducing apparatus to decode data stored on an optical disk, comprising:

first and second memories to store the data read from the optical disk and correct errors in the data read from the optical disk; and

a memory controller to perform the error correction of the data in one of the first and second memories and simultaneously reading previously error corrected data from the other one of said first and second memories.

21. The optical disk reproducing apparatus as claimed in claim 20, further comprising a descrambler to descramble the error corrected data read from each of said first and second memories.

22. The optical disk reproducing apparatus as claimed in claim 20, wherein said memory controller performs inner parity correction by rows of the data and then performs outer parity error correction by columns of the data, in the one of said first and second memories.

23. A method for controlling first and second error correcting memories of an optical disk reproducing apparatus which reads data from an optical disk, comprising the steps of:

alternately writing the data into the first and second error correcting memories; and

error correcting the data using one of the first and second error correcting memories while simultaneously writing the data into the other one of the first and second error correcting memories.

24. The method as claimed in claim 23, further comprising the step of reading previously error corrected data from the other one of the first and second error correcting memories while simultaneously writing the data into the one of said first and second memories.

25. The method as claimed in claim 24, further comprising the step of descrambling the read previously error corrected data.

26. The method as claimed in claim 25, further comprising the step of demodulating the data read from the optical disk prior to writing the data into the first and second error correcting memories.

27. A method for controlling first and second error correcting memories of an optical disk reproducing apparatus which reads data from an optical disk, comprising the steps of:

error correcting the data by alternately using the first and second error correcting memories; and

reading the error corrected data from one of the first and second error correcting memories while simultaneously error correcting the data in the other one of the first and second error correcting memories.

28. A method for controlling first and second error correcting memories of an optical disk reproducing apparatus which reads data from an optical disk, comprising the steps of:

(a) writing a first error block of the data into the first error correcting memory;

(b) error correcting the error block of the data in the first error correcting memory and simultaneously writing a second error block of the data into the second error correcting memory;

(c) error correcting the second block of the data of the second error correcting memory and, simultaneously, reading the corrected first error block from the first error correcting memory and then writing a third error correcting block into the first error correcting memory;

(d) error correcting the third block of the data of the first error correcting memory and, simultaneously, reading the corrected second error block from the first error correcting memory and then writing a fourth error correcting block into the second error correcting memory; and

(e) repeating the steps (a) through (d) until there is no more of the data to be read from the optical disk.