摘要
A novel memory efficient path metric update is proposed for Maximum A Posteriori(MAP) decoder of turbo codes to reduce the memory requirement of state metric information calcu-lation. For MAP decoder,the same memory can be shared by the forward and backward metrics with this metric update scheme. The forward and backward metrics update can be performed at the same time. And all of the extrinsic information can be calculated at the end of metric update. Therefore,the latency and area in the implementation will be reduced with the proposed metric update method.
A novel memory efficient path metric update is proposed for Maximum A Posteriori （MAP） decoder of turbo codes to reduce the memory requirement of state metric information calculation. For MAP decoder, the same memory can be shared by the forward and backward metrics with this metric update scheme. The forward and backward metrics update can be performed at the same time. And all of the extrinsic information can be calculated at the end of metric update. Therefore, the latency and area in the implementation will be reduced with the proposed metric update method.
