• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.117-125
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• 2014

In this paper, a novel hardware architecture of the LT codec is presented where non-BP based decoding algorithm is applied. Novel LT codec architecture is designed with an efficient degree distribution unit using Verilog HDL. To perform permutation operation, different initial valued or time shifted counters have been used to get pretty well permutations and an effect of randomness. The codec will take 128 bits as input and produce 256 encoded output bits. The simulation results show expected performances as the implemented distribution and the original distribution are pretty same. The proposed LT codec takes 257.5 cycle counts and $2.575{\mu}s$ for encoding and decoding instead of 5,204,861 minimum cycle counts and 4.43s of the design mentioned in the previous works where iterative soft BP decoding was used in ASIC and ASIP implementation of the LT codec.