EDN

Mastering Turbo Coding for Wireless Apps

In order for third-generation (3G) wireless systems to take off, design engineers must once again turn to advanced error correction schemes. 3G wireless systems will ...
EDN

Efficient UMTS Turbo MAP decoding on a DSP

This article focuses on techniques to decode UMTS Turbo codes efficiently using a general purpose DSP processor with MAP (maximum a posterior) decoding algorithm. Since MAP decoding is costly both in ...
Design-Reuse

A Low Complexity Parallel Architecture of Turbo Decoder Based on QPP Interleaver for 3GPP-LTE/LTE-A

This paper propose an improved method called the modified warm-up-free parallel window(PW) MAP decoding schemes to implement highly-parallel Turbo decoder architecture based on the QPP(Quadratic ...
Design-Reuse

Unified C-programmable ASIP architecture for multi-standard Viterbi, Turbo and LDPC decoding

This paper describes an ASIP decoder template suitable for multi-standard Viterbi, Turbo and LDPC decoding. We show architecture fitness for WLAN, WiMAX and 3GPPLTE standards, although various other ...
Embedded

Turbo encoders boost efficiency of a femtocell’s DSP

Recently, the concept of small femtocell base stations has been gaining popularity in mobile applications because of their advantages over traditional macrocells in terms of coverage, compatibility, ...
TV Technology

EchoStar Chooses Broadcom 8PSK Turbo Code Technology

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Broadcom announced EchoStar Communications Corp. is using its 8PSK turbo code technology across ...