A low-power CSCD asynchronous viterbi decoder for wireless applications

  • Authors:
  • Mohamed Kawokgy;C. André T. Salama

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Toronto;University of Toronto

  • Venue:
  • ISLPED '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper presents a 64-state, ½-rate asynchronous Viterbi decoder suitable for wireless and mobile applications. The decoder uses a novel dynamic Current Sensing Completion Detection (CSCD) technique and achieves significant power reduction while maintaining speed. The decoder, implemented in a 90 nm CMOS technology, occupies an area of 0.81 mm2 and operates at 378 Mb/s while consuming 45 mW: a 43% power delay product improvement when compared to its synchronous counterpart.