A unified parallel radix-4 turbo decoder for Mobile WiMAX and 3GPP-LTE

Ji Hoon Kim, In Cheol Park

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Abstract

This paper describes the energy-efficient implementation of a high performance parallel radix-4 turbo decoder, which is designed to support multiple fourth-generation (4G) wireless communication standards such as Mobile WiMAX and 3GPP-LTE. We propose a new hardware architecture that can share hardware resources for the two standards. It mainly consists of eight retimed radix-4 soft-input soft-output (SISO) decoders to achieve high throughput and a dual-mode parallel hardware interleaver to support both almost regular permutation (ARP) and quadratic polynomial permutation (QPP) interleavers defined in the two standards. A prototype chip supporting both Mobile WiMAX and 3GPP-LTE standards is fabricated in a 0.13μm CMOS technology with eight metal layers. The decoder core occupies 10.7mm2 and can exhibit a decoding rate of more than 100Mb/s with eight iterations while achieving an energy efficiency of 0.31nJ/bit/iter.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2009 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC '09
Pages487-490
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event2009 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC '09 - San Jose, CA, United States
Duration: 13 Sep 200916 Sep 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
ISSN (Print)0886-5930

Conference

Conference2009 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC '09
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Jose, CA
Period13/09/0916/09/09

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