Abstract
The in-place path metric scheduling is known as an efficient approach for sequential processing of the trellis, where the number of add_compare_select (ACS) units or processors is less than the number of states. In this paper, a systematic approach to partitioning a centralized memory into several banks to increase the memory bandwidth for in-place path metric update in Viterbi decoders is presented. Similar concepts can be extended to distribute the memory banks into ACS units if the ACS units are scheduled correspondingly to keep the interconnection minimal. Implementation results show that in terms of trade-off between hardware overhead and required memory bandwidth, an expected performance improvement can be achieved based on the proposed technique, especially for the trellis with a long constraint length.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 449-452 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems |
Volume | 4 |
Publication status | Published - 1998 |
Event | Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS. Part 5 (of 6) - Monterey, CA, USA Duration: 1998 May 31 → 1998 Jun 3 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering