LDPC Decoder Design Using Compensation Scheme of Group Comparison for 5G Communication Systems

This paper presents a dual-mode low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoding architecture that has excellent error-correcting capability and a high parallelism design for fifth-generation (5G) new-radio (NR) applications. We adopted a high parallelism design using a layered decoding schedule to meet the...

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Published in:Electronics (Basel) 2021-08, Vol.10 (16), p.2010
Main Authors: Lin, Cheng-Hung, Wang, Chen-Xuan, Lu, Cheng-Kai
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
CMOS
Codes
Communication
Communications systems
Compensation
Decoding
Error correcting codes
Error correction
Error correction & detection
Hardware
Low density parity check codes
Power consumption
Schedules
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Summary:This paper presents a dual-mode low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoding architecture that has excellent error-correcting capability and a high parallelism design for fifth-generation (5G) new-radio (NR) applications. We adopted a high parallelism design using a layered decoding schedule to meet the high throughput requirement of 5G NR systems. Although the increase in parallelism can efficiently enhance the throughput, the hardware implementation required to support high parallelism is a significant hardware burden. To efficiently reduce the hardware burden, we used a grouping search rather than a sorter, which was used in the minimum finder with decoding performance loss. Additionally, we proposed a compensation scheme to improve the decoding performance loss by revising the probabilistic second minimum of a grouping search. The post-layout implementation of the proposed dual-mode LDPC decoder is based on the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) 40 nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology, using a compensation scheme of grouping comparison for 5G communication systems with a working frequency of 294.1 MHz. The decoding throughput achieved was at least 10.86 Gb/s without evaluating early termination, and the decoding power consumption was 313.3 mW.
ISSN:2079-9292
2079-9292
DOI:10.3390/electronics10162010