A Reconfigurable Viterbi Decoder for a Communication Platform

A new large constraint length, soft decision viterbi decoder fabric is presented for deployment using platform based system on chip methodologies. The decoder can be reconfigured for standards such as CDMA2000, WCDMA (UMTS), ADSL, IEEE 802.11, and GSM. Maximum resource allocation and performance is achieved by reusing components within turbo decoder base array. This cross platform viterbi decoder is reconfigurable between different trellis types, constraint lengths and rates making it ideal for a unified multi-standard telecommunication platform. In addition, the authors also propose a novel technique for dynamic reconfiguration in order to achieve faster context switching between different mappings. The reconfigurable fabric is implemented as a subset of turbo decoder array on a 180 nm UMC process technology.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: FPL
• Authors: Imran Ahmed, Tughrul Arslan
• Keywords: Decoder, FPL 2006, Hardware, Turbo Decoder, Viterbi Decoder