The invention relates to a Viterbi equalizer for equalizing a data signal, which has been transmitted via a disturbed channel. Said equalizer has at least one Add-Compare-Select (ACS) unit, which carries out an ACS operation for each channel state in a time interval k. The equalizer also comprises a unit (CAL1, CAL2) for precalculating and saving metrics increments, said unit precalculating the increments with reference to all transitions from a predeterminable state in the time interval k to the states in time interval k+1 that can be attained by the transitions and stores them in an output memory (ASP), so that they are available for retrieval by the ACS unit.
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