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An area reduced, speed optimized implementation of Viterbi decoder

Karim et al., 2011

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5760927713175081843
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Karim M
Khan M
Khawaja Y
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International Conference on Computer Networks and Information Technology

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A fast implementation of the Viterbi decoder is discussed in this paper. It is shown that the proposed design is area efficient, reduces memory requirements and has a larger throughput then parallel Viterbi implementations. Techniques used to achieve these goals …
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