DocumentCode
810977
Title
Systematic approach for path metric access in Viterbi decoders
Author
Järvinen, Tuomas ; Salmela, Perttu ; Sipilä, Teemu ; Takala, Jarmo
Author_Institution
Tampere Univ. of Technol., Finland
Volume
53
Issue
5
fYear
2005
fDate
5/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
755
Lastpage
759
Abstract
A systematic approach for the path metric memory management in Viterbi decoders is presented. Between the parallel computation units and memory modules, a permutation of path metrics is required in order to access the path metrics in correct order. We propose a parallel memory access scheme, which reduces the interconnection complexity between parallel computation units and memory modules by rescheduling the path metric computations.
Keywords
Viterbi decoding; parallel memories; storage management; Viterbi decoder; interconnection complexity; memory module; parallel computation unit; path metric access; path metric memory management; Concurrent computing; Convolutional codes; Error correction codes; Iterative decoding; Maximum likelihood decoding; Memory management; Multiprocessor interconnection; Parallel processing; Shift registers; Viterbi algorithm; Distributed memory systems; Viterbi decoding; multiprocessor interconnection; parallel processing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Communications, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0090-6778
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TCOMM.2005.847158
Filename
1431116
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