HDL LIBRARY OF PROCESSING UNITS FOR GENERIC AND DVB-S2 LDPC DECODING

Marco Gomes, Gabriel Falcão, Vitor Silva, Miguel Falcão, Pedro Faia

2006

Abstract

This paper proposes an efficient HDL library of processing units for generic and DVB-S2 LDPC decoders following a modular and automatic design approach. General purpose, low complexity and high throughput bit node and check node functional models are developed. Both full serial and parallel architecture versions are considered. Also, a dedicated functional unit for an array processor LDPC decoder architecture to the DVB-S2 standard is considered. Additionally, it is described an automatic HDL code generator tool for arbitrary decoder architectures and LDPC codes, based on the proposed processing units and Matlab scripts.

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Gomes M., Falcão G., Silva V., Falcão M. and Faia P. (2006). HDL LIBRARY OF PROCESSING UNITS FOR GENERIC AND DVB-S2 LDPC DECODING . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2006) ISBN 978-972-8865-64-1, pages 17-24. DOI: 10.5220/0001570000170024


in Bibtex Style

@conference{sigmap06,
author={Marco Gomes and Gabriel Falcão and Vitor Silva and Miguel Falcão and Pedro Faia},
title={HDL LIBRARY OF PROCESSING UNITS FOR GENERIC AND DVB-S2 LDPC DECODING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2006)},
year={2006},
pages={17-24},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001570000170024},
isbn={978-972-8865-64-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2006)
TI - HDL LIBRARY OF PROCESSING UNITS FOR GENERIC AND DVB-S2 LDPC DECODING
SN - 978-972-8865-64-1
AU - Gomes M.
AU - Falcão G.
AU - Silva V.
AU - Falcão M.
AU - Faia P.
PY - 2006
SP - 17
EP - 24
DO - 10.5220/0001570000170024