AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF PROGRAM LOGIC TO DECODE VARIABLE-LENGTH CODES

A program for decoding variable-length codes like Huffman codes is generated by receiving information describing a particular coding scheme that defines an association between source symbols and the variable-length codes, generating a binary tree that represents the coding scheme, generating a lookup table from the binary tree that can be used to decode variable-length codes having a length less than or equal to a threshold length, and processing the binary tree and the lookup table to generate the decode program.