Abstract:Turbo codes is an effective method for digital communication systems to get near channel capacity error correcting performance, its iteration convergence performance is the key factor for practicability. Based on the universal decoding method of Turbo codes, a step increment factor was introduced in the paper to improve the iteration convergence performance. The method to generate the step increment factor was also presented as well as its' computer simulations. Simulation results show the method proposed can improve the convergence performance efficiency for Turbo codes with short interleaver.