Signal and Image processing

A Low Complexity Block Turbo Decoder Architecture

Published on - IEEE Transactions on Communications

Authors: Christophe Vanstraceele, Benoit Geller, Jean-Marc Brossier, Jean-Pierre Barbot

We present a low-complexity architecture designed for the decoding of block turbo codes. In particular we simplify the implementation of Pyndiah's algorithm by not memorizing any of the concurrent codewords generated by the Chase search.