Title
Low-power bit-serial Viterbi decoder for next generation wide-band CDMA systems.
Abstract
This paper presents a low-power bit-serial Viterbi decoder chip with the coding rate r=1/3 and the constraint length K=9 (256 states). This chip has been implemented using 0.5 /spl mu/m three-layer metal CMOS technology and is targeted for high speed convolutional decoding for next generation wireless applications such as wide-band CDMA mobile systems and wireless ATM LANs. The chip is expected to operate at 20 Mbps under 3.3 V and at 2 Mbps under 1.8 V. The add-compare-select (ACS) units have been designed using bit-serial arithmetic, which has made it feasible to execute 256 ACS operations in parallel. For trace-back operations, we have developed a novel power-efficient trace-back scheme and an application-specific memory, which was designed considering that 256 bits should be written simultaneously for write operations but only one bit needs to be accessed for read operations. We have estimated that the chip dissipates only 10 mW at 2 Mbps operation under 1.8 V.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1109/ICASSP.1999.758298
ICASSP
Keywords
Field
DocType
next generation wireless application,application-specific memory,coding rate,acs operation,bit-serial arithmetic,low-power bit-serial viterbi decoder,mbps operation,next generation wide-band cdma,novel power-efficient trace-back scheme,wireless atm lans,trace-back operation,cmos technology,decoding,broadband networks,viterbi decoder,256 bit,chip,viterbi algorithm,noise reduction,viterbi decoding,code division multiple access,signal to noise ratio,arithmetic,asynchronous transfer mode,power efficiency
Mathematical optimization,Wireless,Code rate,Computer science,Chip,Real-time computing,CMOS,Asynchronous Transfer Mode,Viterbi decoder,Broadband networks,Code division multiple access,Computer hardware
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1520-6149
0-7803-5041-3
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
H. Suzuki123831.31
Yun-Nan Chang210612.93
keshab k parhi33235369.07