A multi-standard channel-decoder for base-station applications

Proceedings - 17th Symposium on Integrated Cicuits and Systems Design, SBCCI2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 192-197

  Vogt, Timo ^a   Wehn, Norbert ^a   Alves, Philippe ^b  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b STMICROELECTRONICS   (France)

Author keywords

CDMA2k; Configurable; Convolutional Decoder; Hardware sharing; MAP; W CDMA; Wireless

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA TRANSFER; DECODING; ERROR CORRECTION; POLYNOMIALS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TURBO CODES;

CDMA2K; CONFIGURABLE; CONVOLUTIONAL DECODERS; HARDWARE SHARING; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI (MAP) ALGORITHMS; W-CDMA;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 14244256018     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1016568.1016621     Document Type: Conference Paper

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