Efficient approaches to improving performance of VLSI SOVA-based Turbo decoders

Keyphrases

• Performance Improvement 100%
• Turbo Decoder 100%
• Soft Output Viterbi Algorithm 100%
• Coding Gain 40%
• Mapping Function 20%
• Latency 20%
• Bit Error Rate 20%
• Decoder 20%
• Signal-to-noise Ratio 20%
• Scale Factor 20%
• Median Filter 20%
• Extrinsic Information 20%
• Hardware Overhead 20%
• Original Method 20%
• Soft Output 20%
• Pseudo-median 20%

Engineering

• Soft Output 100%
• Coding Gain 33%
• Signal-to-Noise Ratio 16%
• Extrinsic Information 16%
• Scaling Factor 16%
• Bit Error Rate 16%
• Median Filter 16%
• Hardware Overhead 16%
• Mapping Function 16%
• Constituent Decoder 16%