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A flexible FPGA-based quasi-cyclic LDPC decoder

A flexible FPGA-based quasi-cyclic LDPC decoder
A flexible FPGA-based quasi-cyclic LDPC decoder
Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC) error correction decoders have become popular in diverse communications systems, owing to their strong error correction performance and their suitability to parallel hardware implementation. A great deal of research effort has been invested into the implementation of LDPC decoder designs on Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices, in order to exploit their high processing speed, parallelism and re-programmability. Meanwhile, a variety of Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) implementations of multi-mode LDPC decoders exhibiting both inter-standard and intra-standard reconfiguration flexibility are available in the open literature. However, the high complexity of the adaptable routing and processing elements that are required by a flexible LDPC decoder has resulted in a lack of viable FPGA-based implementations. Hence in this work, we propose a parameterisable FPGA-based LDPC decoder architecture, which supports run-time flexibility over any set of one or more Quasi-Cyclic (QC) LDPC codes. Additionally, we propose an offline design flow, which may be used to automatically generate an optimised HDL description of our decoder, having support for a chosen selection of codes. Our implementation results show that the proposed architecture achieves a high level of design-time and run-time flexibility, whilst maintaining a reasonable processing throughput, hardware resource requirement and error correction performance.
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Hailes, Peter
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Xu, Lei
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Maunder, Robert
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Al-Hashimi, Bashir
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Al-Hashimi, Bashir
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Hailes, Peter, Xu, Lei, Maunder, Robert, Al-Hashimi, Bashir and Hanzo, Lajos (2017) A flexible FPGA-based quasi-cyclic LDPC decoder. IEEE Access, 5, 20965-20984. (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2678103).

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Abstract

Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC) error correction decoders have become popular in diverse communications systems, owing to their strong error correction performance and their suitability to parallel hardware implementation. A great deal of research effort has been invested into the implementation of LDPC decoder designs on Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices, in order to exploit their high processing speed, parallelism and re-programmability. Meanwhile, a variety of Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) implementations of multi-mode LDPC decoders exhibiting both inter-standard and intra-standard reconfiguration flexibility are available in the open literature. However, the high complexity of the adaptable routing and processing elements that are required by a flexible LDPC decoder has resulted in a lack of viable FPGA-based implementations. Hence in this work, we propose a parameterisable FPGA-based LDPC decoder architecture, which supports run-time flexibility over any set of one or more Quasi-Cyclic (QC) LDPC codes. Additionally, we propose an offline design flow, which may be used to automatically generate an optimised HDL description of our decoder, having support for a chosen selection of codes. Our implementation results show that the proposed architecture achieves a high level of design-time and run-time flexibility, whilst maintaining a reasonable processing throughput, hardware resource requirement and error correction performance.

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Accepted/In Press date: 1 March 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 3 March 2017
Published date: 25 October 2017
Organisations: Electronics & Computer Science, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Southampton Wireless Group

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Local EPrints ID: 406883
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/406883
PURE UUID: d68e345f-bf40-4ef8-91d1-0daf915d3164
ORCID for Robert Maunder: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7944-2615
ORCID for Lajos Hanzo: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2636-5214

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Date deposited: 25 Mar 2017 02:04
Last modified: 18 Mar 2024 03:09

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Author: Peter Hailes
Author: Lei Xu
Author: Robert Maunder ORCID iD
Author: Bashir Al-Hashimi
Author: Lajos Hanzo ORCID iD

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