An area efficient radix-4 reciprocal dual trellis architecture for a high-code-rate turbo decoder

Chen Yang Lin, Cheng Chi Wong, Hsie-Chia Chang

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Abstract

This brief presents an area-efficient turbo decoder based on the reciprocal dual trellis. In this brief, the radix-4 structure is introduced into the reciprocal dual trellis for throughput enhancement, and a sign-arrangement technique is developed to simplify the hardware and reduce the critical path of the recursion metric unit. To further reduce the hardware complexity, a time-multiplexing method with no degradation of throughput is also presented to save half of the extrinsic units, leading to a 15% hardware reduction of the soft-in/soft-out decoder. After implementation by CMOS 90-nm process, the proposed turbo decoder containing 600 k-gates and 152-kb SRAM can achieve 425 Mb/s with 310-mW power consumption at 8/9 code rate. The post-simulation results show that the proposed methods provide a hardware-efficient solution for turbo decoders exploiting high-code-rate operations.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6922522
Pages (from-to)65-69
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
Volume62
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2015

Keywords

  • area efficient
  • high coderate
  • Reciprocal dual trellis
  • turbo decoder

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