Nature

Turbo Decoding Techniques in Communication Systems

Turbo decoding has revolutionised error correction in digital communication by enabling transmission rates approaching the theoretical channel capacity. At its core ...
EDN

Efficient UMTS Turbo MAP decoding on a DSP

This article focuses on techniques to decode UMTS Turbo codes efficiently using a general purpose DSP processor with MAP (maximum a posterior) decoding algorithm. Since MAP decoding is costly both in ...
Design-Reuse

Unified C-programmable ASIP architecture for multi-standard Viterbi, Turbo and LDPC decoding

This paper describes an ASIP decoder template suitable for multi-standard Viterbi, Turbo and LDPC decoding. We show architecture fitness for WLAN, WiMAX and 3GPPLTE standards, although various other ...
Computerworld

How polar codes work

Polar codes are a channel coding technology and all channel coding technology works in basically a quite similar way. Communication links are susceptible to errors due to random noise, interference, ...