Title
VLSI Implementation of a High-Throughput Iterative Fixed-Complexity Sphere Decoder
Abstract
By exchanging soft information between the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) detector and the channel decoder, an iterative receiver can significantly improve the performance compared to the noniterative receiver. In this brief, a soft-input soft-output fixed-complexity-sphere-decoding algorithm and its very large scale integration architecture are proposed for the iterative MIMO receiver. The deeply pipelined architecture employs the optimized hybrid enumeration to search for the best child node estimate efficiently. By adding the counter hypotheses in parallel with other candidates, the proposed iterative MIMO detector improves the detection performance significantly with low detection latency. An iterative detector for an 4 × 4 64-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) MIMO system based on our proposed architecture is designed and implemented using the 90-nm CMOS technology. The detector can achieve a maximum throughput of 2.2 Gbit/s with an area efficiency of 3.96 Mbit/s/kGE, which is more efficient than other iterative MIMO detectors.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TCSII.2013.2251954
IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
iterative mimo receiver,iterative mimo detector,soft-input soft-output (siso) mimo detection,fixed-complexity sphere decoding (sd) (fsd),cmos integrated circuits,very large scale integration (vlsi),soft-input soft-output fixed-complexity-sphere-decoding algorithm,channel decoder,noniterative receiver,multiple-input multiple-output (mimo),bit rate 2.2 gbit/s,channel coding,bit rate 3.96 mbit/s,cmos technology,64-quadrature amplitude modulation mimo system,mimo communication,vlsi,quadrature amplitude modulation,optimized hybrid enumeration,size 90 nm,vlsi implementation,radio receivers,64-qam mimo system,multiple-input multiple-output detector,iterative decoding,high-throughput iterative fixed-complexity sphere decoder
MIMO-OFDM,Quadrature amplitude modulation,Computer science,Control theory,QAM,MIMO,Electronic engineering,Amplitude modulation,Throughput,Very-large-scale integration,Detector
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
60
5
1549-7747
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
19
1.10
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xi Chen1191.10
Guanghui He28012.73
Jun Ma3939.42