A VLSI design for a systolic Viterbi decoder
T. K. Truong, E. Satorius, M.T. Shih, I.S. Reed · NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA) · 1990
A systolic Viterbi decoder for convolutional codes is developed. This decoder uses the trace-back method to reduce the amount of data needed to be stored in registers. It is shown that this new algorithm requires a smaller chip size and achieves a faster decoding time than other existing methods.