• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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• v.58 no.4
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• pp.623-626
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• 2009

In this paper, we applied new analog viterbi decoder to decode PR(1,2,2,1) signal for DVD and analyze the specific and signal characteristics. We implemented the parallel analog viterbi decoder and the convolution digital viterbi decoder(the digital PRML) utilizing the technology of analog parallel processing circuits. The proposed analog viterbi decoder can replace the conventional digital viterbi decoder by a new one. Our circuits design the low distortion and the high accuracy over the previous implementation. Through the parallel structure of the proposed viterbi decoder, we got the achievement of the decoding speed by the multiple times.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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• v.36C no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 1999

In this paper, we proposed a design method of parameterized viterbi decoder, which automatically synthsizes the diverse viterbi deciders used in the digital mobile communication systems. It is designed to synthesize a viterbi decoder specified by user-provided parameters. Those parameters are constraint length, code rate generator polynomials of teh convolutional encoder, data rate and bits/frame of the data transmission, and soft decision bits of viterbi decoder. For the design of the parameterized viterbi decoder, we designed a user interface module C-language, and a viterbi decoder module in a hierarchical atructure using VHDL language and its generic statement. For the verification of the parameterized viterbi decoder, we compared our synthesized viterbi decoder with the conventional viterbi decoder which is designed for the IS-95 CDMA system. The proposed design method of the viterbi decoder will be a new method to obtain a required viterbi decoder in a very short time only by supplying the design parameters.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1939-1940
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• 2008

1967년 Andrew J. Viterbi에 의해 처음 제안된 Viterbi 알고리즘은 길쌈부호(convolution code)의 대표적인 복호방법으로 현재 통신 기술 중에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 것 중에 하나이다. Viterbi decoder는 사용되는 시스템의 사양에 따라 에러 수정 능력이 다른데 통신 channel 상의 오류뿐만 아니라 Viterbi decoder내부에 있는 메모리에서 발생하는 오류도 Viterbi decoder의 에러 수정 능력에 영향을 준다. 본 논문에서는 일반적으로 많이 확인되었던 channel상의 오류와 함께 Viterbi decoder내부에 있는 메모리에서 오류가 발생했을 때 복.부호기의 사양에 따른 에러정정능력을 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07g
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• pp.2470-2472
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• 1998

In this paper, we proposed the method to improve the performance of Viterbi decoder by applying Concatenated structure. Proposed decoder for Concatenated Code is designed with inner Viterbi decoder, block deinterleaver and outer Viterbi decoder. Inner Viterbi decoder (K=7, R=1/2) has 8-level soft decision, but outer decoder (K=7, R= 1/2) has 2-level hard decision. Applied interleaving scheme make decoder to have better BER performance in Concatenated code. The designed VLSI shares inner decoder with outer decoder. Because of sharing structure, complexity of decoder can be reduced to half. But it required about twice clock speed.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.10c
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• pp.375-377
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• 2006

A Analog parallel processing-based Viterbi decoder which decodes PRML signal of DVD has been designed by CMOS circuit. The analog processing-based Viterbi decoder implements are functions of the conventional digital Viterbi decoder utilizing the analog parallel processing circuit technology. The Analog parallel processing-based Viterbi decoding technology is applied for the PR(1,2,2,1) signal decoding of DVD. The benefits are low power consumption and less silicon consumption. In this paper, the comparison of the Analog parallel processing-based Viterbi Decoder which has a function of the error correction between Max operation and Average operation is discussed.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.196-198
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• 2007

A circuit design technique to reduce the propagation time is proposed for the analog parallel processing-based Viterbi decoder. The analog Viterbi decoder implements the function of the conventional digital Viterbi decoder utilizing the analog parallel processing circuit technology. The decoder is for the PR(1.2,2.1) signal of DVD. The benefits are low power consumption and less silicon occupation. In this paper, a propagation time reduction technique is proposed by minimizing the parasitic capacitance components in the layout design of the analog Viterbi decoder. The propagation time reduction effect of the proposed technique has been shown via HSPICE simulation.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.863-866
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• 1999

In this paper, we designed a Viterbi decoder with constraint length K=7, code rate R=1/2, encoder generator polynomial (171, 133)$_{8}$. This decoder makes use of 3-bit soft decision. We designed the Viterbi decoder using VHDL. We employed conventional logic circuit instead of ROM for branch metric units(BMUs) to reduce the number of gates. We adopted fully parallel structures for add-compare-select units(ACSUs). The size of the designed decoder is about 200, 000 gates.s.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.4A
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• pp.539-545
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• 2000

A 40-Mb/s, 64-state, R= 1/2, 3 bit soft decision Viterbi decoder based on Radix-4 method has been designed and fabricated using a FLEX10K CPLD chip in this paper. In order to implement the high-speed Viterbi decoder, the architectures of adder-compare-select(ACS), branch metric calculation(BMC), trace back(TB) are present. In practical designed by ASIC, the speed is faster than that of CPLD by 6~7 times. Therefore, 40 Mb/s Viterbi decoder architecture can be used for high-speed wireless multimedia communications with 200 Mb/s.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.43 no.11 s.353
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• pp.90-97
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• 2006

In this paper, we present a cost-effective architecture of high-speed soft-decision Viterbi decoder for Multi-band OFDM(MB-OFDM) systems. In the design of modem for MB-OFDM systems, a parallel processing architecture is general]y used for the reliable hardware implementation, because the systems should support a very high-speed data rate of at most 480Mbps. A Viterbi decoder also should be designed by using a parallel processing structure and support a very high-speed data rate. Therefore, we present a optimized hardware architecture for 4-way parallel processing Viterbi decoder in this paper. In order to optimize the hardware of Viterbi decoder, we compare and analyze various ACS architectures and find the optimal one among them with respect to hardware complexity and operating frequency The Viterbi decoder with a optimal hardware architecture is designed and verified by using Verilog HDL, and synthesized into gate-level circuits with TSMC 0.13um library. In the synthesis results, we find that the Viterbi decoder contains about 280K gates and works properly at the speed required in MB-OFDM systems.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.587-594
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• 2005

In the paper, after we propose a viterbi decoder which has multiple buffering and parallel processing decoding scheme through expanding time-divided imput signal, and map a FPGA, we implement a channel coding system together with PC-based software. Continuous input signal is buffered as order of decoding length and is parallel decoded using a high speed cell for viterbi decoding. Output data rate increases linearly with the cell formed the viterbi decoder, and flexible operation can be satisfied by programming controller and modifying input buffer. The tell for viterbi decoder consists of HD block for calculating hamming distance, CM block for calculating value in each state, TB block for trace-back operation, and LIFO. The implemented cell of viterbi decoder used 351 LAB(Logic Arrary Block) and stably operated in maximum 139MHz in APEX20KC EP20K600CB652-7 FPGA of ALTERA. The whole viterbi decoder including viterbi decoding cells, input/output buffers, and a controller occupied the hardware resource of $23\%$ and has the output data rate of 1Gbps.