VLSI implementation of a soft bit-flipping decoder for PG-LDPC codes

Autor: Hyunwoo Ji, Wonyong Sung, Jonghong Kim, Junho Cho
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: ISCAS
DOI: 10.1109/iscas.2009.5117904
Popis: Implementation of high throughput VLSI chips for low-density parity-check codes has been considered very difficult especially when the row or column weight of the code is high. In this paper, a projective-geometry (PG) LDPC code is implemented in VLSI employing the proposed soft bit flipping (SBF) algorithm. The SBF algorithm requires only simple interconnections, but its error correcting performance is close to the sum-product algorithm (SPA). Parallel processing architecture is employed for increasing the throughput. With the (1057, 813) PG-LDPC code, the implemented 4-bit SBF decoder consumes only a small area of 2.5mm2 while providing 6.5Gbps and good performance close to the floating-point SPA by 0.6dB at the frame error rate of 10−4.
Databáze: OpenAIRE