Unified encoder embedded trellis router designs for decoding convolutional and turbo codes

Abstract

Communication systems usually adopted different encoding structures of convolutional codes (CCs) and turbo codes (TCs). This Letter proposes a unified encoder embedded trellis router (UEETR) to support various decoding of single-binary/double-binary (SB/DB) CC and TC encoding structures with a small hardware overhead. Furthermore, a lowlatency UEETR and a hardware-shared radix-4 UEETR are explored to reduce initial setting time and to support radix-4 SB/DB CC and TC decoding, respectively. In addition, a flexible decoding kernel with a small area cost of proposed UEETR has been implemented by a 90-nm process.