Design, hardware implementation and testing of a soft decision information set decoder

Author

Kimpe, M. ; Knopp, R. ; Leib, H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

Volume

38

Issue

1

fYear

1995

fDate

2/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

75

Lastpage

82

Abstract

A senior undergraduate project in digital communications combining theory with computer aided design (CAD) and providing hands on experience in the field is considered. The project is suitable for engineering undergraduate students with a background of a first course in digital communications and digital system design. The project consists of the study, computer simulation, design and hardware implementation of a soft decision information set decoder for an (8,4) extended Hamming code. The measured performance correlated well with the performance predicted by theory and computer simulation

Keywords

CAD; Hamming codes; decoding; design engineering; digital communication; digital simulation; educational courses; project engineering; telecommunication computing; telecommunication engineering education; (8,4) extended Hamming code; CAD; computer aided design; computer simulation; design; digital communications; digital system design; engineering undergraduate students; first course; hardware implementation; performance; senior undergraduate project; soft decision information set decoder; Block codes; Computer errors; Computer simulation; Decoding; Design automation; Design engineering; Digital communication; Hardware; Linear algebra; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Education, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9359

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/13.350223

Filename

350223