Design of high-speed low-power polar BP decoder using emerging technologies

Ao Ren, Bo Yuan, Yanzhi Wang

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Abstract

With the provable asymptotically optimal property in the sense of channel capacity, polar codes have emerged as one of the potential channel code candidates for the next-generation wireless communication systems. To date, numerous works have been reported on VLSI implementation of polar decoders. However, the efficient hardware design of polar decoders that can be used in the real-time energy-constraint mobile devices is still a huge challenge. This paper, for the first time, investigates high-speed low-power polar decoder design using FinFET and near-threshold computing (NTC) technologies. Specifically, the hardware performance of polar decoder with belief propagation (BP) decoding approach is studied and evaluated. Synthesis results show that the joint use of these two emerging technologies can lead to significant reduction in both power consumption and decoding delay at the same time.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 29th IEEE International System on Chip Conference, SOCC 2016
EditorsKaran Bhatia, Massimo Alioto, Danella Zhao, Andrew Marshall, Ramalingam Sridhar
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages312-316
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781509013661
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2 2016
Event29th IEEE International System on Chip Conference, SOCC 2016 - Seattle, United States
Duration: Sep 6 2016Sep 9 2016

Publication series

NameInternational System on Chip Conference
Volume0
ISSN (Print)2164-1676
ISSN (Electronic)2164-1706

Other

Other29th IEEE International System on Chip Conference, SOCC 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySeattle
Period9/6/169/9/16

Keywords

  • FinFET
  • belief propagation (BP)
  • near-threshold computing
  • polar codes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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