A novel VLSI architecture of fixed-complexity sphere decoder

Proceedings - 13th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools, DSD 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 737-744

  Wu, Bin ^a   Masera, Guido ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breadth first processing; Constant throughput; Fixed complexity sphere decoder; MIMO detection; Parallel architecture; VLSI implementation

Indexed keywords

BREADTH-FIRST PROCESSING; CONSTANT THROUGHPUT; FIXED-COMPLEXITY SPHERE DECODER; MIMO DETECTION; VLSI IMPLEMENTATION;

ARCHITECTURE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TESTING; MIMO SYSTEMS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; SPHERES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; THROUGHPUT;

DECODING;

EID: 78649896929     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSD.2010.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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