EDN

Efficient UMTS Turbo MAP decoding on a DSP

This article focuses on techniques to decode UMTS Turbo codes efficiently using a general purpose DSP processor with MAP (maximum a posterior) decoding algorithm. Since MAP decoding is costly both in ...
SpaceNews

CCSDS Gives SMART-1’s Data Transmissions a Turbo Boost at the Moon

TOULOUSE, France November 24, 2004 (CCSDS) – The European Space Agency (ESA) launched SMART-1 late last year making it the first satellite to have data transmissions powered by Turbo Codes, ...
EDN

IMEC improves turbo coding technique

LONDON — In a development that could boost channel coding efficiency of wireless communication standards, researchers at the Interuniversities Microelectronics Center (Leuven, Belgium) say they have ...
Design-Reuse

A Low Complexity Parallel Architecture of Turbo Decoder Based on QPP Interleaver for 3GPP-LTE/LTE-A

This paper propose an improved method called the modified warm-up-free parallel window(PW) MAP decoding schemes to implement highly-parallel Turbo decoder architecture based on the QPP(Quadratic ...
Design-Reuse

Altair Semiconductor Successfully Integrates TurboConcept turbo-code IP Cores into its LTE Baseband Processor Product Line

July 2, 2009 -- Altair Semiconductor, a fabless chip company developing the world's most advanced 4G mobile semiconductors for handheld devices, today announced that it has successfully integrated the ...