The acceleration of turbo decoder on the newest GPGPU of Kepler architecture

In the paper, a new implementation of a 3GPP LTE standards compliant turbo decoder based on GPGPU is proposed. It uses the newest GPU-Tesla K20c, which is based on the Kepler GK110 architecture. The new architecture has more powerful parallel computing capability and we use it to fully exploit the parallelism in the turbo decoding algorithm in novel ways. Meanwhile, we use various memory hierarchies to meet various kinds of data demands on speed and capacity. Simulation shows that our implementation is practical and it gets 76% improvement on throughput over the latest GPU implementation. The result demonstrates that the newest Kepler architecture is suitable for turbo decoding and it can be a promising reconfigurable platform for the communication system.