Title :
Power-efficient application-specific VLIW processor for turbo decoding
Author :
Bekooij, M. ; Dielissen, J. ; Harmsze, F. ; Sawitzki, S. ; Huisken, J. ; van der Weri, A. ; van Meerbergen, J.
Author_Institution :
Philips Res. Lab., Eindhoven, Netherlands
Abstract :
A method permits coprocessors to be embedded inside a programmable VLIW processor. Synchronization of the coprocessors and the VLIW processor is determined at compile-time by the VLIW scheduler. The implementation of a power-efficient turbo decoder demonstrates the effectiveness of this method.
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; coprocessors; decoding; microprocessor chips; parallel architectures; turbo codes; application-specific VLIW processor; coprocessors; power-efficient decoder; synchronization; turbo decoding; Application software; Bit error rate; Coprocessors; Design methodology; High level synthesis; Iterative decoding; Parallel processing; Processor scheduling; Software tools; VLIW;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2001. Digest of Technical Papers. ISSCC. 2001 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6608-5
DOI :
10.1109/ISSCC.2001.912594
