Hardware-efficient low density parity check code for digital communications
US7178080B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 26, 2002 |
| Grant date | Feb 13, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 22, 2024 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L1/0057
- WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A low density parity check (LDPC) code that is particularly well adapted for hardware implementation of a belief propagation decoder circuit is disclose& The LDPC code is arranged as a macro matrix (H) whose rows and columns represent block columns and block rows of a corresponding parity check matrix (Hpc). Each non-zero entry corresponds to a permutation matrix, such as a cyclically shifted identity matrix, with the shift corresponding to the position of the permutation matrix entry in the macro matrix. The block columns of the macro matrix are grouped, so that only one column in the macro matrix group contributes to the parity check sum in any given row. The decoder circuitry includes a parity check value estimate memory which may be arranged in banks that can be logically connected in various data widths and depths. A parallel adder generates extrinsic estimates that are applied to parity check update circuitry for generating new parity check value estimates. These parity check value estimates are stored back into the memory, and are forwarded to bit update circuits for updating of probability values for the input nodes. Variations including parallelism, time-sequencing of ultr…
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