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* Viterbi Decoder (AXI4-Stream compliant)

Details

Name: viterbi_decoder_axi4s
Created: Jan 16, 2012
Updated: Apr 16, 2015
SVN Updated: Feb 17, 2014
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Bugs: 8 reported / 7 solved
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Other project properties

Category:ECC core
Language:VHDL
Development status:Stable
Additional info:Design done, FPGA proven
WishBone compliant: No
WishBone version: n/a
License: GPL

Description

A fully configurable VHDL Viterbi decoder compliant with the AXI4-Stream interface. Most standards using convolutional codes like Wifi or GSM are easy to implement by configuring some generic parameters. The decoder supports a high throughput even on low-cost devices. See the User Guide for more information about the core.

Features

  • Design-time configuration of encoder polynomials (different number of states and different code rates).
  • Support for recursive and non-recursive convolutional codes.
  • Windowing technique for reduced latency and memory requirements (with acquisition).
  • Design-time configuration of quantization, maximum window size, RAM usage (distributed RAM vs. Block RAM).
  • Run-time configuration of block length.
  • Run-time configuration of window length and acquisition length.
  • Block-to-block on-the-fly configuration.
  • Comprehensive documentation available.

Benefits

  • Configurable for most standards that apply convolutional codes (GSM, UMTS, CDMA, CDMA2000, WiMAX, WiFi, DAB, ...).
  • Pipelined design for high payload throughputs (about 1 bit per clock cycle).
  • AXI4-Stream interface for simple integration.
  • Up to 250 MHz on Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA (Speedgrade 1).
  • Commercial support and licenses available.

Communications Performance

Communications Performance Viterbi Decoder
Comparison for Viterbi communications performance in various standards.
Frame length is set to 400, while the LLR input bit length is 4 and no windowing is used.

Contact author

Creonic GmbH - Germany
Site: www.creonic.com
Tel: +49 631 3435988-0