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+## Copyright (C) 2007 Sylvain Pelissier <sylvain.pelissier@gmail.com>
+## Copyright (C) 2009 Christian Neumair <cneumair@gnome.org>
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
+## the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+## Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+## version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+## ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+## FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
+## details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
+## this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} qamdemod (@var{x},@var{m})
+## Create the QAM demodulation of x with a size of alphabet m.
+## @seealso{qammod,pskmod,pskdemod}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function z = qamdemod(y,m)
+ if(nargin < 2)
+ usage('y = qamdemod(x,m)');
+ exit;
+ end
+
+ c = sqrt(m);
+ if(c ~= fix(c) || log2(c) ~= fix(log2(c)))
+ error('m must be a square of a power of 2');
+ end
+
+ x = qammod(0:(m-1),m);
+ x = reshape(x,1,m);
+ z = zeros(size(y));
+ for k = 1:numel(y)
+ [n z(k)] = min(abs(y(k) - x));
+ end
+ z = z - 1;