0 a piece of equipment that allows you to receive particular television signals:
You need a decoder to get these channels.
1 a piece of equipment that changes electronic signals into a form that can be used by other equipment, for example a television:
Such a mapping amounts to an instruction decoder, which is implemented as a decision tree.
This is an instance of what psycholinguists term 'the garden path effect', as the decoder is led 'up the garden path' to an incorrect parsing.
There is almost no effort spent on decoder design.
The linguistic deficit they observed in poor readers who were good decoders is attributed to the area of syntax itself rather than the phonological domain.
A matching statement enables a programmer to build an efficient decoder that associates single actions with either individual instructions or groups of instructions.
The mappings at the top, called decoders, map binary code, the data type, or register transfers to instructions.
This kind of generated decoder is not very flexible; to use it, a client must specify an action for each instruction and addressing mode.
This is why occurrences of variables are marked with the dual decoder when they are linked by a coded abstraction.