Method of processing data for a decoding operation using windows of data

1. A method for processing data for a decoding operation, said method using windows of data, each window comprising data to be written and to be read and having a size the method comprising:

writing a current window of data into a unique buffer in a first address direction, said first address direction being an opposite direction from an address direction of the writing of a preceding window of data, said writing of said current window beginning at an address where no data of the preceding window of data have been written, said unique buffer having a length greater than a maximum size of the windows of data; and

reading the data of said preceding window of data from said unique buffer from a reading address equal to a last written address of the same preceding window of data, said reading of the data of said preceding window of data being made simultaneously to said writing of the current window of data, and in the same first address direction.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the buffer has a length equal to the maximum size of the windows of data plus one.

3. A receiver utilizing said method as claimed in claim 1 .

4. A computer-readable medium encoded with a data structure comprising a set of instructions, which, when loaded into a receiver, causes the receiver to carry out the method claimed in claim 1 .

5. A computer-readable medium encoded with a data structure comprising a set of instructions, which, when loaded into a computer, causes the computer to carry out the method claimed in claim 1 .

6. A method of processing data having a block size K divisible into a plurality, N, of windows of data, said method comprising:

(1) writing a first window of data into a unique buffer in a first address direction, said unique buffer having a length greater than a maximum size of the windows of data,

(2) for i∈(1, N−1), simultaneously:

(i) writing an (i+1) th window of data into the unique buffer in an address direction opposite from an address direction of the writing of a preceding window of data, said writing of the (i+1) th window beginning at an address where no data of the preceding window of data have been written, and

(ii) reading an i th window of data from said unique buffer from a reading address equal to a last written address of the i th window of data, said reading being made in the same address direction as writing the (i+1) th window of data; and

(3) reading the N th window of data from said unique buffer from a reading address equal to a last written address of the N th window of data, the reading of the N th window of data being in a direction opposite from the writing of the N th window of data.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the buffer has a length equal to the maximum size of the windows of data plus one.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein for i ∈ (2, N−1), writing the (i+1) th window of data begins at a same address as writing an (i−1) th window of data.

9. The method of claim 6 , wherein for i ∈ (1, N−2), reading an (i+2) th window of data begins at a same address as writing the i th window of data.

10. the method of claim 6 , where for wherein for i ∈(1, N−2), in each window, writing the (i+1) th window of data begins at an address that is either one address greater or one address less than the last written address of the i th window of data.