A unified turbo/viterbi channel decoder for 3GPP mobile wireless in 0.18-μm CMOS

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1555-1564

  Bickerstaff, Mark A ^a   Garrett, David ^a   Prokop, Thomas ^b   Thomas, Charles ^b   Widdup, Benjamin ^b   Zhou, Gongyu ^b   Davis, Linda M ^a   Woodward, Graeme ^a   Nicol, Chris ^b   Yan, Ran Hong ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel decoding; Decoding; Error correction; Mobile communications; Turbo; Viterbi

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; DECODING; ERROR CORRECTION; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; ITERATIVE METHODS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CHANNEL DECODER CHIP; TURBO DECODER; VITERBI CHANNEL DECODER;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0036857198     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2002.803929     Document Type: Article

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