A 1.5Gb/s Highly Parallel Turbo Decoder for 3GPP LTE/LTE-Advanced

Abstract

A highly parallel turbo decoder for 3GPP LTE/LTE-Advanced systems is presented. It consists of 32 radix-4 soft-in/soft-out (SISO) decoders. Each SISO decoder is based on the proposed full-parallel sliding window (SW) schedule. Implemented in a 0.13µm CMOS technology, the proposed design occupies 12.96mm² and achieves 1.5Gb/s while decoding size-6144 blocks with 5.5 iterations. Compared with conventional SW schedule, the throughput is improved by 30-76% with 19.2% area overhead and negligible energy overhead.