• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.234-237
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• 2003

본 논문은 이동 통신 및 IEEE 802.lla WLAN에서 사용하고 있는 컨벌루셔널 부호의 복호기인 비터비 복호기의 SMU(Survivor Metric Unit)의 최적 메모리 제어에 관한 연구이다. 비터비 복호기기 구조는 크게 BMU, ACSU, SMU부로 구성된다. 이때 SMU부는 최적의 경로를 역추적 하여 최종 복호 데이터를 출력해 주는 블록으로, 역추적 길이에 따라 메모리 사용 양과 복호 성능이 좌우된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 최적 메모리 제어 알고리즘을 제안함으로써 복호 속도의 향상과 메모리 사용 양을 줄이는 방법을 제안한다. 제안 알고리즘의 성능을 검증하기 위해 기존의 비터비 복호기와 역추적 길이에 따른 비터비 복호기의 성능을 실험을 통해 분석함으로써 제안 방법의 객관적인 성능을 분석한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04b
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• pp.1627-1630
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• 2002

본 논문은 역추적 예견 알고리즘을 사용한 비터비 복호기에서의 TB단의 Polling 구조의 단순화 방법을 제시한다. 비터비 복호기의 3대 Unit중 하나인 Trace Back에서 역추적 예견 알고리즘을 사용할 경우 복호화 시점에서의 최소 State Metric 값을 찾아야 하는 번거로움을 줄일 수 있다. 하지만 복호 신호의 신뢰도 분산에 따라 Polling Unit 이 추가되어야 함에 따라 실제 하드웨어 복잡도에서의 이득은 미미한 것으로 알려져 있다. 제시된 구조에서는 Polling Unit을 단순화 할 수 있는 방법을 적용하였다. 기존 하드웨어와의 비교 평가를 위하여 IEEE802.11a의 표준에 따른 부호화율 1/2, 구속장 7을 갖는 비터비 디코더에 대하여 역추적 예견 알고리즘과 파이프라인 구조만을 갖는 경우와 제안된 단순화한 Polling Unit을 적용한 구조와의 비교에서 Trace Back Unit에서 약 45%의 감소 효과를 보였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.397-409
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• 2003

This paper describes an implementation of radix-4 trellis parallel architecture and backward state transition control trace back Viterbi decoder, and presents the application results to high speed wireless LAN. The radix-4 parallelized architecture Vietrbi decoder can not only improve the throughput with simple structure, but also have small processing delay time and overhead circuit compared to M-step trellis architecture one. Based on these features, this paper addresses a novel Viterbi decoder which is composed of branch metric computation, architecture of ACS and trace back decoding by sequential control of backward state transition for the implementation of radix-4 trellis parallelized structure. With the proposed architecture, the decoding of variable code rate due to puncturing the base code can easily be implemented by the unified Viterbi decoder. Moreover, any additional circuit and/or peripheral control logic are not required in the proposed decoder architecture. The trace back decoding scheme with backward state transition control can carry out the sequential decoding according to ACS cycle clock without additional circuit for survivor memory control. In order to evaluate the usefulness, the proposed method is applied to channel CODEC of the IEEE 802.11a high speed wireless LAN, and HDL coding simulation results are presented.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.61-66
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• 2001

In this paper, we design high speed Viterbi decoding algorithm which is aimed for Wireless LAN. Wireless LAN transmits data at rate 6∼54 Mbps. This high speed is not easy to implement Viterbi decoder with single ACS. So parallel ACS butterfly structure is to be used and several time-dependent problem is to be solved. We simulate Viterbi algorithm using new branch metric calculating method to save time, and consider trace back algorithm which is adaptable to high speed Viterbi decoder. With simulated, we determine the structure of Viterbi decoder. This architecture is available to high speed and low power Viterbi decoder.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.40 no.11
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• pp.51-62
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• 2003

This paper presents a novel survivor memeory management and decoding techniques with sequential backward state transition control in the trace back Viterbi decoder. The Viterbi algorithm is an maximum likelihood decoding scheme to estimate the likelihood of encoder state for channel error detection and correction. This scheme is applied to a broad range of digital communication such as intersymbol interference removing and channel equalization. In order to achieve the area-efficiency VLSI chip design with high throughput in the Viterbi decoder in which recursive operation is implied, more research is required to obtain a simple systematic parallel ACS architecture and surviver memory management. As a method of solution to the problem, this paper addresses a progressive decoding algorithm with sequential backward state transition control in the trace back Viterbi decoder. Compared to the conventional trace back decoding techniques, the required total memory can be greatly reduced in the proposed method. Furthermore, the proposed method can be implemented with a simple pipelined structure with systolic array type architecture. The implementation of the peripheral logic circuit for the control of memory access is not required, and memory access bandwidth can be reduced Therefore, the proposed method has characteristics of high area-efficiency and low power consumption with high throughput. Finally, the examples of decoding results for the received data with channel noise and application result are provided to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.3A
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• pp.337-346
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• 2004

Punctured convolutional codes increase transmission efficiency without increasing hardware complexity. However, Viterbi decoder supporting punctured codes requires long decoding length and large survivor memory to achieve sifficiently low bit error rate (BER), when compared to the Viterbi decoder for a rate 1/2 convolutional code. This Paper presents novel architecture adopting a pipelined trace-forward unit reducing survivor memory requirements in the Viterbi decoder. The proposed survivor path architecture reduces the memory requirements by removing the initial decoding delay needed to perform trace-back operation and by accelerating the trace-forward process to identify the survivor path in the Viterbi decoder. Experimental results show that the area of survivor path unit has been reduced by 16％ compared to that of conventional hybrid survivor path unit.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.5C
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• pp.411-421
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• 2002

In this paper, we present a new survivor path memory management method and a dedicated hardware architecture for the design of high-speed Viterbi decoders in modern digital communication systems. In the proposed method, a novel use of k-starting node number deciding circuits enables to acheive the immediate traceback of the merged survivor path from which we can decode output bits, and results in smaller survivor path memory size and processing delay time than the previously known methods. Also, in the proposed method, the survivor path memory can be constructed with ease using a simple standard dual-ported memory since one read-pointer and one write-pointer, that are updated at the same rate, are required for managing the survivor path: the previously known algorithms require either complex k-ported memory structure or k-times faster read capability than write. With a moderate hardware cost for immediate traceback capability the proposed method is superior to the previously known methods for high-speed Viterbi decoding.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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• v.35C no.3
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• pp.24-31
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• 1998

This paper presents a pipeline high-level synthesis tool for designing trace-back systolic array viterbi decoder. It consists of a dta flow graph(DFG) generator and a pipeline data path synthesis tool. First, the DFG of the vitrebi decoder is generated in the from of VHDL netlist. The inputs to the DFG generator are parameters of the convolution encoder. Next, the pipeline scheduling and allocationare performed. The synthesis tool explores the design space efficiently, synthesizes various designs which meet the given constraints, and choose the best one.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.1056-1063
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• 2008

This paper describes an efficient design of a multi-standard Viterbi decoder that supports multiple constraint lengths and code rates. The Viterbi decoder is parameterized for the code rates 1/2, 1/3 and constraint lengths 7,9, thus it has four operation nodes. In order to achieve low hardware complexity and low power, an efficient architecture based on hardware sharing techniques is devised. Also, the optimization of ACCS (Accumulate-Subtract) circuit for the one-point trace-back algorithm reduces its area by about 35% compared to the full parallel ACCS circuit. The parameterized Viterbi decoder core has 79,818 gates and 25,600 bits memory, and the estimated throughput is about 105 Mbps at 70 MHz clock frequency. Also, the simulation results for BER (Bit Error Rate) performance show that the Viterbi decoder has BER of $10^{-4}$ at $E_b/N_o$ of 3.6 dB when it operates with code rate 1/3 and constraints 7.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.93-96
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• 2008

This paper describes an efficient design of a multi-standard Viterbi decoder that supports multiple constraint lengths and code rates. The Viterbi decode. is parameterized for the code rates 1/2, 1/3 and constraint lengths 7, 9, thus it has four operation modes. In order to achieve low hardware complexity and low power, an efficient architecture based on hardware sharing techniques is devised. Also, the optimization of ACCS (Accumulate-Subtract) circuit for the one-point trace-back algorithm reduces its area by about 35% compared to the full parallel ACCS circuit. The parameterized Viterbi decoder core has 79,818 gates and 25,600 bits memory, and the estimated throughput is about 105 Mbps at 70 MHz clock frequency.