A (204,188) Reed-Solomon decoder using decomposed Euclidean algorithm

Abstract

A (204, 188) Reed-Solomon decoder for DVB application is presented. The RS decoder features an area-efficient Key Equation Solver using a novel decomposed Euclidean algorithm. We implement the RS decoder using 0.35 mum CMOS 1P4M standard cells, where the total gate count is about 16K similar to 17K. Test results show that the RS decoder chip can run up to 87MHz.