An Area-Efficient Parallel Turbo Decoder Based on Contention Free Algorithm

Abstract

In this paper, a contention free algorithm for solving memory collision problem of parallel Turbo decoder architecture using the simulated annealing algorithm is presented. Furthermore, we proposed two area-efficient extrinsic memory schemes based on the parallel contention free Turbo decoder. One of the proposed schemes employs only multiple single port memories with one temporary buffer instead of the original dual port or two port memories and the other scheme further employs an additional non-linear extrinsic mapping architecture. The proposed schemes lead to approximately 37% and 46% memory area reduction, respectively, for 16-parallel Turbo decoder in comparison to the conventional dual port memory scheme under the UMC 0.13-mu m CMOS process.