12th IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP'00)
A 550 Mb/s Radix-4 Bit-level Pipelined 16-State 0.25-?m CMOS Viterbi Decoder
Boston, Massachusetts
July 10-July 12
ISBN: 0-7695-0716-6
In today's high-speed disk drive read channel ICs maximum likelihood detection using the Viterbi algorithm is a key component in reconstructing digital data sequences. The presented Viterbi decoder was realized in a 0.25-?m CMOS technology. Using the proposed comparison approach, it achieves a throughput rate of 550 Mb/s.
Index Terms:
disk-drive read channels, high-speed Viterbi decoder, radix-4 add-compare-select, redundant number representations, bit-level pipelining, CMOS technology, full-custom macros, datapath generator assisted design, 0.25 micron, 550 MHz
Citation:
V.S. Gierenz, O. Weiss, T.G. Noll, I. Carew, J. Ashley, R. Karabed, "A 550 Mb/s Radix-4 Bit-level Pipelined 16-State 0.25-?m CMOS Viterbi Decoder," asap, pp.195, 12th IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP'00), 2000