TC: Throughput Centric Successive Cancellation Decoder Hardware Implementation for Polar Codes Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • 2016 IEEE. This paper presents a hardware architecture of fast simplified successive cancellation (fast-SSC) algorithm for polar codes, which significantly reduces the decoding latency and dramatically increases the throughput. Algorithmically, fast-SSC algorithm suffers from the fact that its decoder scheduling and the consequent architecture depends on the code rate; this is a challenge for rate-compatible system. However, by exploiting the homogeneousness between the decoding processes of fast constituent polar codes and regular polar codes, the presented design is compatible with any rate. The scheduling plan and the intendedly designed processing core are also described. Results show that, compared with the state-of-art decoder, our design can achieve at least 60% latency reduction for the codes with length N = 1024. By using Nangate FreePDK 45nm process, proposed design can reach throughput up to 5.81 Gbps and 2.01 Gbps for (1024,870) and (1024, 512) polar code, respectively.

name of conference

  • 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

published proceedings

  • 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

author list (cited authors)

  • Che, T., Xu, J., & Choi, G.

citation count

  • 4

complete list of authors

  • Che, Tiben||Xu, Jingwei||Choi, Gwan

publication date

  • January 2016