Design of Fixed-Point Processing Based Turbo Codes Using Extrinsic Information Transfer Charts
Design of Fixed-Point Processing Based Turbo Codes Using Extrinsic Information Transfer Charts
The operand-width specifications in fixed-point hardware implementations of turbo code decoders is an important design issue, since this governs the trade-off between the decoder's performance and its complexity, cost, area and energy consumption. The investigation of this issue would be extremely time-consuming in the conventional approach, which relies upon Monte-Carlo simulation based Bit Error Ratio (BER) analysis. In this paper, we propose a generic design method, which uses EXtrinsic Information Transfer (EXIT) chart analysis to simplify this design process. Our method is not only an order of magnitude faster than the conventional Monte-Carlo simulation based approach, but also offers deeper insights into why performance degradations are imposed by insufficient operand-width specifications. The benefits of our generic method are demonstrated in the context of a turbo decoder, allowing accurate specifications to be obtained and compared to those suggested by previous works.
Extrinsic Information Transfer chart, EXIT chart, Fixed-point, turbo code, UMTS
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Li, Liang
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Maunder, Robert G.
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Al-Hashimi, Bashir M.
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Hanzo, Lajos
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6 September 2010
Li, Liang
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Maunder, Robert G.
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Al-Hashimi, Bashir M.
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Hanzo, Lajos
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Li, Liang, Maunder, Robert G., Al-Hashimi, Bashir M. and Hanzo, Lajos
(2010)
Design of Fixed-Point Processing Based Turbo Codes Using Extrinsic Information Transfer Charts.
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IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Canada.
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The operand-width specifications in fixed-point hardware implementations of turbo code decoders is an important design issue, since this governs the trade-off between the decoder's performance and its complexity, cost, area and energy consumption. The investigation of this issue would be extremely time-consuming in the conventional approach, which relies upon Monte-Carlo simulation based Bit Error Ratio (BER) analysis. In this paper, we propose a generic design method, which uses EXtrinsic Information Transfer (EXIT) chart analysis to simplify this design process. Our method is not only an order of magnitude faster than the conventional Monte-Carlo simulation based approach, but also offers deeper insights into why performance degradations are imposed by insufficient operand-width specifications. The benefits of our generic method are demonstrated in the context of a turbo decoder, allowing accurate specifications to be obtained and compared to those suggested by previous works.
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Published date: 6 September 2010
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Event Dates: September 2010
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IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Canada, 2010-09-01
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Extrinsic Information Transfer chart, EXIT chart, Fixed-point, turbo code, UMTS
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Electronic & Software Systems, Southampton Wireless Group
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URI: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/270937
ISBN: 978-1-4244-3573-9
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Liang Li
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Robert G. Maunder
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Lajos Hanzo
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