Design of a VLSI Decoder for Partially Structured LDPC Codes
Author(s) -
F. Vacca,
Libero Dinoi,
Guido Masera
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
international journal of digital multimedia broadcasting
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.164
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1687-7586
pISSN - 1687-7578
DOI - 10.1155/2008/245305
Subject(s) - computer science , very large scale integration , decoding methods , low density parity check code , constructive , parity check matrix , class (philosophy) , algorithm , process (computing) , embedded system , artificial intelligence , operating system
The starting point of this work is the development of a new class of partially structured LDPC codes, very well suited for hardware implementation. Specifically these codes are built so that the edgesof their parity matrix can be partitioned into two disjoint sets, namely, the structured and the random ones. For the proposed class of codes a constructive design method is provided. To assess the value of this method the constructed codes performance are presented. From these results, a novel decoding method called split decoding is introduced. Finally, to prove the effectiveness of the proposed approach a whole VLSI decoder is designed and characterized
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