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A Multi-Gbps Unrolled Hardware List Decoder Systematic Polar Code

Giard, Pascal  
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Balatsoukas Stimming, Alexios Konstantinos  
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Müller, Thomas Christoph
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2016
Proceedings of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers
Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers

Polar codes are a new class of block codes with an explicit construction that provably achieve the capacity of various communications channels, even with the low-complexity successive-cancellation (SC) decoding algorithm. Yet, the more complex successive-cancellation list (SCL) decoding algorithm is gathering more attention lately as it significantly improves the error-correction performance of short- to moderate-length polar codes, especially when they are concatenated with a cyclic redundancy check code. However, as SCL decoding explores several decoding paths, existing hardware implementations tend to be significantly slower than SC-based decoders. In this paper, we show how the unrolling technique, which has already been used in the context of SC decoding, can be adapted to SCL decoding yielding a multi-Gbps SCL-based polar decoder with an error-correction performance that is competitive when compared to an LDPC code of similar length and rate. Post-place-and-route ASIC results for 28 nm CMOS are provided showing that this decoder can sustain a throughput greater than 10 Gbps at 468 MHz with an energy efficiency of 7.25 pJ/bit.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/ACSSC.2016.7869561
ArXiv ID

1702.00938

Author(s)
Giard, Pascal  
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Balatsoukas Stimming, Alexios Konstantinos  
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Müller, Thomas Christoph
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Burg, Andreas Peter
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Thibeault, Claude
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Gross, Warren J.
Date Issued

2016

Journal
Proceedings of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers
Start page

1194

End page

1198

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REVIEWED

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Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers

Pacific Grove, CA, USA

Nov. 2016

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May 10, 2017
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