Low power VLSI implementation of the map decoder for turbo codes through forward recursive calculation of reverse state metrics

Proceedings - IEEE International SOC Conference, SOCC 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 408-411

  Atluri, I ^a   Arslan, T ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEM LEVEL INTEGRATION   (United Kingdom)

^c NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bit error rate; Computer architecture; Decoding; Energy consumption; Laboratories; NASA; Power engineering and energy; Propulsion; Turbo codes; Very large scale integration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DECODING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; LABORATORIES; NASA; PROPULSION; TURBO CODES; VLSI CIRCUITS;

LOG LIKELIHOOD; LOGMAP DECODER; LOW POWER VLSIS; MAP ALGORITHMS; MEMORY UTILIZATION; POWER ENGINEERING AND ENERGIES; RECURSIVE CALCULATIONS; REDUCED COMPLEXITY;

MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84945350386     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SOC.2003.1241553     Document Type: Conference Paper

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