Design and Implementation of Low Power High Speed Symmetric Decoder Structure for SDR Applications

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Design and Implementation of Low Power High Speed Symmetric
Decoder Structure for SDR Applications
Nidhin Sani1
, Agath Martin2
, Abin John Joseph3
and Nishanth R.4
1
Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology, CUSAT/CUCEK, INDIA
2
Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology, CUSAT/CUCEK, INDIA
3
Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, CUSAT/CUCEK, INDIA
4
Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, CUSAT/CUCEK, INDIA
4
Corresponding Author: nishanth.jino@gmil.com
ABSTRACT
The key objective of this project is to design a
decoder which can be used for hardware purposes.
Hardware, here accompanies with software which is more
we can discuss as a Software Defined Radio application. The
decoder implemented here offers to new radio equipment
(SDR), the flexibility of a programmable system. Nowadays,
the behavior of a communication system can be modified by
simply changing its software. Large tree decoder is made by
reusing smaller similar sub-modules. Thus the structure is
symmetric. The symmetric and regular structure of tree
decoder makes the system a less complexity one. The
structure obeys regularity and modularity concepts of VLSI
circuit, thus is easy to fabricate using cell library elements.
Design a Tree Decoder proposed architecture for SDR
application on FPGA. The Structures made here are
hardware synthesizable on FPGA board and are done in a
respective manner. The design to be implementing by using
Verilog-HDL language. The Simulation and Synthesis by
using Xilinx Vivado design suite.
Keywords-- Software Defined Radio(SDR), Tree
Decoder, FPGA, HDL
I. INTRODUCTION
In any communication network, Transmitter
and receiverare the two common parts of the
system.Decoders are used in the receiver section
which is helpful in obtaining the desired information
effectively. A decoder takes the coded info from a
receive message and changes it into recognizable kind.
A decoder is a combinational circuit that converts
binary information from n input lines to a maximum
of m=2n
output lines. Design of a high performance
and efficient static, dynamic and tree decoder is very
important for design of a frequency allocator but the
main point is to allocate the specified band to assign a
set of inputs which is then obtained at the desired
output, thus the developing of a reliable and fast
frequency allocator is a big problem in itself. A
software-defined radio system, or SDR, is a radio
communication system where components that have
been typically implemented in hardware (e.g. mixers,
filters, amplifiers, modulators/demodulators detectors,
etc.) square measure instead enforced by means
that of software package on a private pc or embedded
system. SDR needs to be reconfigurable to address the
needs of flexibility and adaptability of
SDRapplications.
SDR stands for Software Defined Radio; it's a
radio communication system and the parts that are usually
implemented in hardware (e.g. detectors, filters,
amplifiers, modulators/demodulators, mixers etc.) are
instead implemented by means of software on the
computer or embedded system. Since the content of
SDR isn't new, the rapidly evolving capabilities of digital
electronics render practical many processes which used to
be only theoretically possible.The SDR and the
technologies required for the design and implementation
of tree decoder are discussed and the information related
to them are presented, the information related to the
software language VHDL and simulation and Analysis
tools like Xilinx Vivado design suite is presented.A basic
SDR system might carries with it a private pc equipped
with a sound card, or other analog-to-digital converter,
receded by some form of RF front end.Significant
amounts of signal process are processed by
the general processor, rather than being done in special-
purpose hardware (electronic circuits).Such
a style produces a radio which may receive and
transmit wide completely different radio protocols
(sometimes remarked as waveforms) based only on the
software used. Software radios have important utility for
the military and mobile phone services, both of which
must serve a wide variety of changing radio protocols in
real time.In the long term, software-defined radios are
expected by proponents like the SDR Forum (now The
Wireless Innovation Forum) to become the dominant
technology in radio communications. SDRs, together
with software defined antennas are the enablers of
the cognitive radio.
II. LITERATURE REVIEW
Compression is useful technique in digital
system, as it reduces the channel bandwidths and storage
size. Thispaper presents new Huffman decoder based on
binary tree method for improving usage of memory and

speed. It has shown through experiment result related to
computational speed that the propose method is superior
to otherpredecessor. The customized Huffman hardware
decoder comparison is presented at different speed on
various FPGA’s [5]. Future mobile and wireless
communication networks require flexible modem
architectures to support the services between
differentnetwork standards. Hence, a common hardware
platform that can support multiple protocols implemented
or controlled by software, generallyreferred to as software
defined radio (SDR), is essential. This paper presents a
family of dynamically reconfigurable application specific
instructionset processors (ASIPs) for channel coding in
wireless communication systems. As a weekly
programmable intellectual property (IP)core, it can
implement by trellisbased channel decoding in a SDR
environment. It features binary convolutional decoding,
and turbo decoding forbinary as well as duobinary turbo
codes for all current and upcoming standards. The ASIP
consists of a specialized pipeline with 15 stages and
adedicated communication and memory infrastructure.
Logic synthesis revealed a maximum clock frequency of
400 MHz and an area of 0.11 mm2for the processor's
logic using a low power 65nm technology. Memories
require another 0.31 mm2
. Simulation results for Viterbi
and turbodecoding demonstrate maximum throughput of
196 and 34 Mb/s, respectively. The ASIP hence
outperforms state ofthe art decoder architecturestargeting
software defined radio by at least a factor of three while
consuming only 60% or less of the logic area[3].
III. PROPOSED METHOD
Big tree decoder can be designed by reusing
smaller similar sub-modules. Thus the structure becomes
symmetric. The symmetric and regular structure of tree
decoder makes the system easy to design. The structure
obeys regularity and modularity concepts of VLSI circuit,
thus is easy to fabricate using cell library elements. Tree
structure requires fewer components with better area and
delay optimization.
Design of 4 to 16 tree decoder:
4 inputs given as: A0, A1, B1, B2
1 enable input: Enable
16 output stages: Z0 , Z1 , Z2 , Z3 , Z4 , Z5 , Z6 , Z7 , Z8
, Z9 ,Z10, Z11 , Z12 , Z13 , Z14 , Z15
It is composed of five number 2 to 4 decoders.
The input to 4 to 16 decoder is divided into two equal
halves and each half is named accordingly.
i.e. X = (Xleft + Xright)
where, Xleft = (B2 ,B1) and Xright = (A1 , A0)
Figure 1: Tree decoder
FPGA based Tree Decoder
The FPGA board Spartan 3E (3s500efg320-5)
used to implement the tree decoder has only 8 LEDs to
display the output of logic program burnt on it. So, only 8
outputs can be shown at a time on Spartan 3E. This
limitation of FPGA board is removed by a new logic
encoded in the previous described tree decoder. The logic
employed to show 16 output lines in two sets of 8 output
lines each is presented next. As we have to map 16
outputs onto 8 outputs of LEDs, we require one more
enable input which works in such a way that it selects
higher order 8 outputs if it is logic 1 and selects the lower
order 8 outputs when it is logic 0. The function thus
implemented can be given asfollows:
This structure of tree decoder consists of
following parameters. 4 inputs given as: A0, A1, A2, X3
2 enable input: en and en1
16 output stages: Z0 , Z1 , Z2 , Z3 , Z4 , Z5 , Z6 , Z7 , Z8
, Z9 , Z10, Z11 , Z12 , Z13 , Z14 , Z15
It is composed of
1. 5 number of 2 to 4decoders.
2. 4 AND gates
3. 8 ORgates
The input to 4 to 16 decoder is divided into two
equal halves and each half is named accordingly.
I.e. X = (Xleft +Xright)
Where, Xleft = (X3 ,A2) and Xright = (A1 , A0)
The first 2 to 4 decoder at the top receives the
Xleft inputs of Main input and enable as its input lines.
Mathematically,
W = Dec (Xleft, en)
Where W = W0, W1, W2, W3 are the four outputs of 2 to
4 Decoder DEC.
The output lines of this top decoder are fed to
four different AND gates. The second input to AND gates
are from en1 input. The output of these AND gates
become the enable input for below decoders at level
2.The two AND gates which works as enable input for
higher 8 bit outputs is fed directly with en1 input while
there is two AND gates which work as enable for lower

8bit outputs is fed through the complement of en1. The
inputs to level 2 decoders are the Xright part of main
input. Lastly, to map 16 outputs for two sets of 8outputs
each, the corresponding bits of higher 8outputs are Red
with corresponding bits of lower 8 outputs. Thus the
circuit is implemented.
When en1 = 0, Z shows lower 8 bits of output
for given input combination and en1 = 1, Z shows higher
8 bits of output for given input.
Thus,
Z = fucn {en1, Dec ( (Xright , W0) , (Xright , W1) ,
(Xright, W2), (Xright, W3))}
Where, Z is the combined output of level 2 decoders’ i.e.
DEC0, DEC1, DEC2 and DEC3.
IV. SIMULATION & SYNTHESIS
RTL Schematic
Figure 2: Tree decoder using FPGA
Detailed Schematic
Figure 3: Schematic diagram for tree decoder
Table I
Parameter Utilization
Parameter % Utilization
Number of slices 08
Number of 4 input LUTs 22
Number of IOBs 20
Maximum delay 6.246ns
Total memory usage 1984113
V. CONCLUSION
From the above results we conclude that the
decoder designed and implemented by symmetric tree
decoder method requires much less utilization of
components. Thus requires much less memory space for
fabrication, low energy for working and comparatively
less delay. Apart from these parameters, the
circuit structure for a tree decoder is symmetric and
regular. Tree decoders are formed of similar sub-
modules, thus respects the modularity and
regularity ideas of VLSI fabrication requirements.
These structures can be modeled by means
of normal blocks which are easily available in cell
libraries and requirement of solely similar blocks of
circuits additionally easies the process of layout
designing and fabrication
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