The solution from Creonic for data rates of up to 1 Gbit/s offers outstanding efficiency in terms of implementation complexity. John Porter, CTO of Cambridge Communications Systems and convinced Creonic customer, says: “The Creonic WiMedia IP core runs at over twice the speed and uses half the logic of any competing products“. Area and energy efficiency played a decisive role during the LDPC code design process. With this unified approach not only outstanding efficiency is obtained, but also excellent error correction performance, outperforming Viterbi decoders by up to 3 dB. At the same time, a throughput of hundreds of Mbit/s can be achieved even on low-cost FPGAs.
Applications
  • High-throughput Applications
  • Low-latency Applications
  • Ultra-wideband (UWB)
  • Wireless USB
  • Microwave Links
  • Optical Links
  • TeleCare / TeleHealth
 
Features the Core Supports
  • Supports different code rates (1/2, 5/8, 3/4, and 4/5).
  • Supports different block lengths (1200 bits and 1320 bits).
  • Compliant with Multiband OFDM Physical Layer Specification, PHY Specification: Final Deliverable 1.5, August 11, 2009.
 
Your Benefits
  • Silicon-proven IP.
  • Decodes more than 5 codeword bits per clock cycle for throughputs beyond 1 Gbit/s.
  • Gains up to 3 dB compared to Viterbi decoders.
  • Low-power and low-complexity design.
  • Layered LDPC decoder architecture, for faster convergence behavior.
  • Block-to-block on-the-fly configuration.
  • Early stopping criterion for iterative LDPC decoder, saving a considerable amount of energy.
  • Configurable amount of LDPC decoding iterations for trading-off throughput and error correction performance.
  • Collection of statistic information (number of modified information bits, number of iterations, decoding successful).
  • LDPC encoder included.
  • Available for ASIC and FPGAs (Xilinx, Intel).
  • Deliverable includes VHDL source code or synthesized netlist, VHDL testbench, and Matlab, C or C++ bit-accurate simulation model.
 
Resources
Learn more about the WiMedia UWB LDPC Codes.
 
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