WIRELESS COMMUNICATION UNIT AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING A WIRELESS SIGNAL

A wireless communication receiver comprises a SNR measurement logic (112) for measuring a SNR value of the received signal and signal processing logic (108) arranged to process the received wireless signal (Fig. 1, not shown). The signal processing logic (108) comprises demodulator logic (255) operably coupled to log likelihood ratio (LLR) logic (262) and decoding logic (265). A scaling factor (Q), dependent upon the measured signal-to-noise ratio, is applied to the vector of LLR values provided by de-mapping unit (260). The values are then saturated by converting any values outside the range [-A...+A] to one of -A or +A. The values are then quantized prior to input to a FEC decoder. Scaling factors corresponding to SNR values may be stored in a memory element. Applications include dual-mode TETRA-1 and TETRA-2 receivers.