FPGA design considerations in the implementation of a fixed-throughput sphere decoder for MIMO systems

Proceedings - 2006 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 429-434

  Barbero, Luis G ^a   Thompson, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK CODES; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); FUZZY LOGIC; HARDWARE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MIM DEVICES; MULTIPLEXING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPHERES; THROUGHPUT;

(ALGORITHMIC) COMPLEXITY; DESIGN MODIFICATIONS; DETECTION ALGORITHMS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA) DESIGN; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC (FPL); HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD (MLET); MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD DETECTOR (MLD); MIMO (MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT) SYSTEMS; PIPELINED ARCHITECTURES; PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY; RESOURCE USE; SPHERE DECODER (SD); UNCODED;

DECODING;

EID: 46249115444     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FPL.2006.311247     Document Type: Conference Paper

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