Exploiting ultra-wide bandwidths is a promising approach to achieve the terabits per second
(Tbps) data rates required to unlock emerging mobile applications like mobile extended …

Software Defined Radio makes wireless communications easier, more efficient, and more
reliable. This book bridges the gap between academic research and practical …

During the last two decades, wireless communication has been revolutionized by near-
capacity error-correcting codes (ECCs), such as turbo codes (TCs), which offer a lower bit …

An iterative decoding architecture based on stochastic computational elements is proposed.
Simulation results for a simple low-density parity-check code demonstrate near-optimal …

Stochastic decoding is a new approach to iterative decoding on graphs. This paper presents
a hardware architecture for fully parallel stochastic low-density parity-check (LDPC) …

This paper investigates VLSI architectures for low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoders
amenable to low-voltage and low-power operation. First, a highly-parallel decoder …

Conventional iterative decoding with flooding or parallel schedule can be formulated as a
fixed-point problem solved iteratively by a successive substitution (SS) method. In this paper …

Current-mode circuits are presented for implementing analog min-sum (MS) iterative
decoders. These decoders are used to efficiently decode the best known error correcting …

This work presents the design and the test results of an analog decoder for the 40-bit block
length, rate 1/3, Turbo Code defined in the UMTS standard. The prototype is fully integrated …

Iterative decoders, including Turbo decoders, provide near-optimal error protection for
various communication channels and storage media. CMOS analog implementations of …