Signal and Image processing

A Low Complexity Block Turbo Decoder Architecture

Publié le - IEEE Transactions on Communications

Auteurs : 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.