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A Node-Based Polar List Decoder With Frame Interleaving and Ensemble Decoding Support

Ren, Yuqing  
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Zhang, Leyu  
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Blanc, Ludovic Damien  
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2024
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Node-based successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding has received considerable attention in wireless communications for its significant reduction in decoding latency, particularly with 5G New Radio (NR) polar codes. However, the existing node-based SCL decoders are constrained by sequential processing, leading to complicated and data-dependent computational units that introduce unavoidable stalls, reducing hardware efficiency. In this paper, we present a frame-interleaving hardware architecture for a generalized node-based SCL decoder. By efficiently reusing otherwise idle computational units, two independent frames can be decoded simultaneously, resulting in a significant throughput gain. Based on this new architecture, we further exploit graph ensembles to diversify the decoding space, thus enhancing the error-correcting performance with a limited list size. Two dynamic strategies are proposed to eliminate the residual stalls in the decoding schedule, which eventually results in nearly 2× throughput compared to the state-of-the-art baseline node-based SCL decoder. To impart the decoder rate flexibility, we develop a novel online instruction generator to identify the generalized nodes and produce instructions on-the-fly. The corresponding 28nm FD-SOI ASIC SCL decoder with a list size of 8 has a core area of 1.28 mm2 and operates at 692 MHz. It is compatible with all 5G NR polar codes and achieves a throughput of 3.34 Gbps and an area efficiency of 2.62 Gbps/mm2 for uplink (1024, 512) codes, which is 1.41× and 1.69× better than the state-of-the-art node-based SCL decoders.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/TCSI.2024.3443598
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85210941665

Author(s)
Ren, Yuqing  
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Zhang, Leyu  
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Blanc, Ludovic Damien  
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Shen, Yifei  
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Li, Xinwei  
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Balatsoukas-Stimming, Alexios
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Zhang, Chuan
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Burg, Andreas  
Date Issued

2024

Published in
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
Volume

71

Issue

12

Start page

5457

End page

5470

Subjects

5G

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frame-interleaving

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graph ensembles

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hardware architecture

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Polar codes

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sequence repetition (SR) node

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successive cancellation list (SCL) decoder

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