2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Paper IDSS-8.6
Paper Title HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF ITERATIVE PROJECTION-AGGREGATION DECODING OF REED-MULLER CODES
Authors Marzieh Hashemipour-Nazari, Kees Goossens, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
SessionSS-8: Near-ML Decoding of Error-correcting Codes: Algorithms and Implementation
LocationGather.Town
Session Time:Wednesday, 09 June, 16:30 - 17:15
Presentation Time:Wednesday, 09 June, 16:30 - 17:15
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Topic Special Sessions: Near-ML Decoding of Error-correcting Codes: Algorithms and Implementation
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Abstract In this work, we present a simplification and a corresponding hardware architecture for hard-decision recursive projection-aggregation (RPA) decoding of Reed-Muller (RM) codes. In particular, we transform the recursive structure of RPA decoding into a simpler and iterative structure with minimal error-correction degradation. Our simulation results for RM(7,3) show that the proposed simplification has a small error-correcting performance degradation (0.005 in terms of channel crossover probability) while reducing the average number of computations by up to 40%. In addition, we describe the first fully parallel hardware architecture for simplified RPA decoding. We present FPGA implementation results for an RM(6,3) code on a Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA showing that our proposed architecture achieves a throughput of 171 Mbps at a frequency of 80 MHz