Title
A Low-Complexity Hybrid LDPC Code Encoder for IEEE 802.3an (10GBase-T) Ethernet
Abstract
This paper presents a novel hybrid encoding method for encoding of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. The design approach is applied to design 10-Gigabit Ethernet transceivers over copper cables. For a specified encoding speed, the proposed method requires substantially lower complexity in terms of area and storage. Furthermore, this method is generic and can be adapted easily for other LDPC codes. One major advantage of this design is that it does not require column swapping and it maintains compatibility with optimized LDPC decoders. For a 10-Gigabit Ethernet transceiver which is compliant with the IEEE 802.3 an standard, the proposed sequential (5-Parallel) hybrid architecture has the following implementation properties: critical path: (log2(324) + 1)Txor + Tand, number of XOR gates: 11 056, number of and gates: 1620, and ROM storage: 104 976 bits (which can be minimized to 52 488 bits using additional hardware). This method achieves comparable critical path, and requires 74% gate area, 10% ROM storage as compared with a similar 10-Gigabit sequential (5-parallel) LDPC encoder design using only the G matrix multiplication method. Additionally the proposed method accesses fewer bits per cycle than the G matrix method which reduces power consumption by about 82%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/TSP.2009.2022919
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
local area networks,parity check codes,10-Gigabit Ethernet transceivers,Ethernet,G matrix multiplication method,IEEE 802.3,ROM storage,XOR gates,copper cables,hybrid encoding method,low-complexity hybrid LDPC code encoder,low-density parity-check codes,sequential hybrid architecture,10GBase-T,Encoder,IEEE 802.3an,hybrid,low-density parity check (LDPC)
Parity bit,Transceiver,Computer science,Low-density parity-check code,Parallel computing,XOR gate,Error detection and correction,Ethernet,Encoder,Critical path method
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
57
10
1053-587X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.45
15
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aaron E. Cohen1155.64
keshab k parhi23235369.07