DIGITAL RECEIVER AND DIGITAL TRANSMITTER HAVING A VARIABLE INTERLEAVER FUNCTIONALITY

A digital receiver comprises a pre-de-interleaver processing block (202) for receiving a receive signal comprising reception data units quantized using a quantization rule. The digital receiver additionally comprises a controllable compressor (204) for compressing the data units into a compressed representation, a controllable time-de-interleaver (206) being configured for applying a varying interleaving size in data units, and a controller (212) for controlling the controllable processor (204) or the controllable time-de-interleaver (206). The controller is configured for controlling the compressor (204) or the time-de-interleaver (206) so that a higher interleaving size such as a higher interleaving time or a higher number of data units per second is applied, when a compression in a lower number of bits is active.