高存储效率的MAP译码器网格信息更新实现方法

本文提出一种新型的高存储效率的最大似然译码(MAP)译码器网格信息更新实现方法,该方法可以降低Turbo码译码器状态阵列计算对存储器的需求.利用该实现方法可以使得MAP译码器的前向网格信息和后向网格信息共享同一存储器,而且前向和后向的网格信息更新以及MAP译码产生的外部信息同时进行计算;因此该法可以提高Turbo译码的运算速度、降低存储器开销,进而降低Turbo译码电路实现时的硅片面积.

Memory-efficient path metric update method in MAP decoder implementation

A novel memory efficient path metric update is proposed for Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) decoder of turbo codes to reduce the memory requirement of state metric information calculation. For MAP decoder, the same memory can be shared by the forward and backward metrics with this metric update scheme. The forward and backward metrics update can be performed at the same time. And all of the extrinsic information can be calculated at the end of metric update. Therefore, the latency and area in the implementation will be reduced with the proposed metric update method.