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/spl mu/m CMOS IP4M standard cells, where the total gate count is about 16K/spl sim/17K. Test results show that the RS decoder chip can run up to 87MHz.