ACSU Architecture with High Clock Speed for Viterbi Decoder Using T-Algorithm

In this paper, we propose an efficient architecture based on pre-computation for Viterbi decoders incorporating T-algorithm. Through optimization at both algorithm level and architecture level, the new architecture greatly shortens the long critical path introduced by the conventional T-algorithm. The design example provided in this work demonstrates more than twice improvement in clock speed with negligible computation overhead while maintaining decoding performance.