
To address the challenges posed by propagation channel impairments and to meet the high data rate requirements of laser communications, this study introduces a pioneering low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoder characterized by its high throughput and low complexity. The unique design of this decoder, based on an inter-frame pipeline and intra-frame parallel (IFPP-IFP) scheme, is specifically tailored to maximize the efficiency of processing units, leading to a substantial increase in decoding throughput. The implementation of IFPP is realized through a novel full-overlap message passing (FOMP) scheme and a dynamic address access (DAA) algorithm, distinguishing it from current solutions. Additionally, the decoder employs a message packing strategy and low-complexity data alignment units to effectively achieve IFP. Compared to existing solutions, our hardware implementation on the Xilinx XCKU060 FPGA demonstrates significant progress. The decoder achieves a decoding throughput of 2.67 Gb/s at 10 iterations and 350MHz. Remarkably, when five decoders are used on a single FPGA device, the throughput soars to 13.3 Gb/s, outperforming state-of-the-art designs by 1.3 times and concurrently reducing resource consumption by half. This combination of resource efficiency and enhanced throughput highlights the innovative and superior nature of our proposed approach.
laser communications, LDPC decoder, low-complexity, Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering, high-throughput, FPGA, TK1-9971
laser communications, LDPC decoder, low-complexity, Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering, high-throughput, FPGA, TK1-9971
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