A method for operating a contention-free interleaver for channel coding is provided that includes generating a sub-table based on a data block size, N, and an offset vector, v, of length x and generating an interleave table based on the sub-table. For a particular embodiment, the interleave table is generated based on the sub-table by generating a plurality of multiplets that together form the interleave table. In addition, the sub-table may be generated based on the data block size and the offset vector by (i) rounding the data block size up to a nearest multiple of the length, x, of the offset vector to generate a modified block size, N′, and (ii) generating the sub-table of a size equal to N′/x.