Gigabit rate low-power LDPC decoder

LDPC codes are becoming popular in next generation high throughput wireless standards since they can provide a level of parallelism with sufficient performance to support the high gigabit rate. In this paper, we propose a new method for LDPC decoding called Parallel Processing Layered (PPL). The new method aims to optimize the latency and power efficiency of LDPC decoding to enable significant increase of the processing rate, thereby saving battery power for mobile devices. We provide performance results in different channel models using the newly defined WiGig standards, and compare them to the conventional decoding methods. We show that the new proposed LDPC decoding architecture converges 2x faster than conventional (i.e. Flooding) methods.