A low-power Reed-Solomon decoder for STM-16 optical communications

Hsie-Chia Chang1, Chien-Ching Lin1, Chen-Yi Lee1
1Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Tóm tắt

In this paper, a low-power Reed-Solomon (RS) decoder for STM-16 optical communications is presented. It mainly contains one (255,239) RS decoder and four 2 K-bit embedded memory for correcting the received codewords. Except the novel syndrome calculator reducing half the syndrome computations, our proposal also features a modified Berlekamp-Massey algorithm in the key equation solver and a terminated mechanism in the Chien search circuit. The (255,239) RS decoder is implemented by 0.25 /spl mu/m CMOS 1P5M standard cells with gate counts of 32.9 K and area of 2.03 mm/sup 2/. Simulation results show our approach can work successfully at the data rate of 2.5-Gbps and achieve 80% reduction of power dissipation on the average.

Từ khóa

#Reed-Solomon codes #Decoding #Polynomials #Optical fiber communication #Equations #Energy consumption #Proposals #Computational modeling #Circuit simulation #Power dissipation

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