Pipelined Architecture for Soft-decision Iterative Projection Aggregation Decoding for RM Codes
Abstract
The recently proposed recursive projection-aggregation (RPA) decoding algorithm for Reed-Muller codes has received significant attention as it provides near-ML decoding performance at reasonable complexity for short codes. However, its complicated structure makes it unsuitable for hardware implementation. Iterative projection-aggregation (IPA) decoding is a modified version of RPA decoding that simplifies the hardware implementation. In this work, we present a flexible hardware architecture for the IPA decoder that can be configured from fully-sequential to fully-parallel, thus making it suitable for a wide range of applications with different constraints and resource budgets. Our simulation and implementation results show that the IPA decoder has 41% lower area consumption, 44% lower latency, four times higher throughput, but currently seven times higher power consumption for a code with block length of 128 and information length of 29 compared to a state-of-the-art polar successive cancellation list (SCL) decoder with comparable decoding performance.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2210.11069,
title = {Pipelined Architecture for Soft-decision Iterative Projection Aggregation Decoding for RM Codes},
author = {Marzieh Hashemipour-Nazari and Yuqing Ren and Kees Goossens and Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.11069},
year = {2023}
}