Semi-Parallel Reconfigurable Architectures for Real-Time LDPC Decoding

  • Authors:
  • Marjan Karkooti;Joseph R. Cavallaro

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ITCC '04 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'04) Volume 2 - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper presents a semi-parallel architecture for decodingLow Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes. A modifiedversion of Min-Sum algorithm has been used which hasthe advantage of simpler computations compared to Sum-Productalgorithm without any loss in performance. Specialstructure of the parity check matrix of the proposed codeleads to an efficient semi-parallel implementation of the decoderfor a family of (3, 6) LDPC codes.A prototype architecturehas been implemented in VHDL on programmablehardware. The design is easily scalable and reconfigurablefor larger block sizes. Simulation results show that our proposeddecoder for a block length of 1536 bits can achievedata rates up to 127 Mbps.