A highly parallel Turbo Product Code decoder without interleaving resource

Abstract

This article presents an innovative turbo product code (TPC) decoder architecture without any interleaving resource. This architecture includes a full-parallel SISO decoder able to process n symbols in one clock period. Syntheses show the better efficiency of such an architecture compared with existing previous solutions. Considering a 6-iteration turbo decoder of a (32,26)2 BCH product code, synthetized in a 90 nm CMOS technology, the resulting information throughput is 2.5 Gb/s with an area of 233 Kgates. Finally a second architecture enhancing parallelism rate is described. The information throughput is 33.7 Gb/s while an area estimation gives A=10 mum2.