Design and optimization of an HSDPA turbo decoder ASIC

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 98-106

  Benkeser, Christian ^a   Burg, Andreas ^a   Cupaiuolo, Teo ^a   Huang, Qiuting ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

3G mobile communication; Channel decoding; Early termination; HSDPA; Low power; Turbo codes

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TURBO CODES;

3G MOBILE COMMUNICATION; CHANNEL DECODING; EARLY TERMINATION; HSDPA; LOW POWER;

DECODING;

EID: 58149234156     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2008.2007166     Document Type: Conference Paper

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