Design and implementation of log domain decoder

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Design and implementation of log domain decoder
Mahmood Farhan Mosleh1
, Fadhil Sahib Hasan2
, Ruaa Majeed Azeez3
1,3
Department of Computer Engineering Techniques, Middle Technical University, Baghdad, Iraq
2
Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Al Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Jul 18, 2019
Revised Oct 16, 2019
Accepted Oct 26, 2019
Low-Density-Parity-Check (LDPC) code has become famous in
communications systems for error correction, as an advantage of the robust
performance in correcting errors and the ability to meet all the requirements
of the 5G system. However, the mot challenge faced researchers is
the hardware implementation, because of higher complexity and long
run-time. In this paper, an efficient and optimum design for log domain
decoder has been implemented using Xilinx system generator with FPGA
device Kintex7 (XC7K325T-2FFG900C). Results confirm that the proposed
decoder gives a Bit Error Rate (BER) very closed to theory calculations
which illustrate that this decoder is suitable for next generation demand
which needs a high data rate with very low BER.
Keywords:
FPGA
LDPC
Log Decoder
Soft Decision
Xilinx system generator Copyright © 2020 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science.
All rights reserved.
Corresponding Author:
Mahmood Farhan Mosleh,
Department of Computer Engineering Techniques,
Electrical Engineering Technical College,
Middle Technical University, Baghdad, Iraq.
Email: drmahmoodfarhan@gmail.com
1. INTRODUCTION
LDPC codes were known for the first time by Gallager in 1960s [1], they belong to linear block
codes that use generator matrix G in the encoding process and Parity Check Matrix (PCM) H for
the decoding. The codes of LDPC can give sufficient reliability and at the same time, they approach
performance very near to Shannon limit with reasonable complexity [2]. They become preferred in wireless
communication standards such as Digital Video Broadcasting–Satellite–Second Generation (DVB-S2),
WLAN (IEEE 802.11n) and WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e) because of their easy decoding process and improved
error-correcting capability. They may be described by sparse PCM. In this PCM the ones entries are very low
as compared to the zero entries [3, 4] which enable encoding and decoding with low complexity.
Also, the Tanner graph can be used to represent LDPC codes. Check nodes (CNs) can be used to represent
every row, and Variable Nodes (VNs) can be used to represent every column. The 1s entries in the matrix
denote the links between the CNs and VNs [5].
The encoding of these codes is done by using either the generator matrix method in which
the message is encoded by multiplying the massage by the G matrix [6] or by using the approximate lower
triangulation. The idea of this method is to encode a message using the PCM instead of the G matrix.
Where the matrix must be converted into an approximate lower triangular form in order to make the encoding
process [7].
Many researches were interesting in implementing LDPC codes via FPGA. Like [8] where a novel
design in the decoding of LDPC codes was presented. This design used a Progressive Edge Growth (PEG)
algorithm using a regular code and an improved Min-Sum (MS) decoding algorithm that led to improving the
performance with no further hardware overhead. The author in [9] described the execution of a common and
embedded decoder to evaluate the unstructured LDPC system under Additive-White Gaussian Noise
(AWGN) channel. This technique of Hardware/Software implementation offered the maximum flexibility for

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the improvement and fast prototyping of the hardware-based simulator system. Also, the authors in [10, 11]
proposed a modified design of decoders which reduced the complexity of decoding LDPC codes based on
FPGA. In addition, the author in [12] implemented the LDPC decoder based Xilinx System Generator
(XSG). Furthermore, the authors in [13] designed and implemented LDPC decoder based FPGA which
reduced the complexity that can be used for applications of high data rate. Moreover, the authors in [14-18]
used FPGA technique to implement LDPC decoders with different algorithms. Finally, the author in [19]
proposed the FPGA construction of spatially coupled (SC) LDPC codes resulting from quasi-cyclic (QC)
LDPC codes.
In this paper, a design of LDPC system using the log domain algorithm will be presented using
Xilinx System Generator (XSG) which is a new and efficient technique to design many systems such as
in [20-22]. The LDPC system will be implemented using XSG with the software tools Xilinx Vivado 2017.4
and Xilinx Kintex7 (XC7K325T-2FFG900C). The purpose of this paper is to design a communication system
using LDPC code based soft decision decoder represented by the log domain algorithm with reduced
hardware design to assess its performance and to determine the extent to which the theoretical results match
the current application. The rest of this paper, the second section includes the theory of log domain algorithm
used in the decoder, the third section includes details of the design using XSG. In the fourth and fifth
sections, the XSG waveforms and synthesis reports are presented in these sections respectively. In the sixth
section, a conclusion is presented.
2. LDPC BASED ON LOG DOMAIN DECODER SYSTEM
Figure 1 shows the block diagram of LDPC system using the log-domain decoder.
Figure 1. LDPC System model based on log decoder
The LDPC encoder is implemented using the matrix method with n is 20 and m is 10 by computing
the check equations of the matrix in the systematic form 𝐻𝑠𝑦𝑠 = [𝐼 𝑚, 𝐴 𝑚×𝐾] where k= n-m as shown below:
𝐻𝑠𝑦𝑠 =
[
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0
0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0
0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0]
(1)
Where the PCM consists of identity matrix I which represents the check equations and binary matrix A which
represents the information part by depending on the binary matrix the check equations can be computed as
follows:
𝐶1 = 𝑑3 + 𝑑6 + 𝑑9 (2)
and
𝐶2 = 𝑑5 + 𝑑6 + 𝑑7 + 𝑑8 (3)

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Where 𝐶1 and 𝐶2 represent the equations for first and second row respectively and so on for
the other equations and di represent the data bits where i is from 1 to 10. The details description of log
decoder is explained below.
2.1. Log decoder
The log domain algorithm is a type of Sum-Product Algorithm (SPA) which depends on passing
messages between CNs and Bit Nodes (BNs). It is like the Bit Flipping Algorithm (BFA) but the BFA takes
a prior hard decision on the received bits as inputs whereas the log domain algorithm depends on a soft
decision by taking the probability of every receiving bit as input [23]. For easier computation for SPA,
the log-likelihood ratio (LLR) of prior (which represent the receiving messages from the channel) and
posterior (which represent the medial messages moved between CNs and VNs) probability is used.
The process of the decoding contains three steps which are the initializing step, CNs processes and VNs
processes [24]. These steps are listed below [25]:
 Step1 (Initialization): The prior messages sent from BN n to the CN m represent the LLR.
𝐿𝑐𝑖 𝑛 =
−4𝑟𝑖
𝑁0
(4)
𝑎𝑙𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑗 𝑚,𝑛=sign (𝐿𝑐𝑖 𝑛) (5)
𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑗 𝑚,𝑛 = | 𝐿𝑐𝑖 𝑛| (6)
where 𝐿𝑐𝑖 𝑛 denotes the LLR of the nth
bit in the mth
parity-check with for an AWGN channel with Signal to
Noise Ratio (SNR), 𝑟𝑖 is the received signal from the channel and 𝑁0 is the noise variance, 𝑎𝑙𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑗 𝑚,𝑛 and
𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑗 𝑚,𝑛 will calculate the sign and the absolute value to each 𝐿𝑐𝑖 𝑛.
 Step2 (CN-to-BN messages): Computing the extrinsic messages for each set of bits connected to CN m by
excluding the bit 𝑛′.
𝑃𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑗 𝑚,𝑛 = log(
1+∏ tanh(
𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑗 𝑚,𝑛′
2
)n∈𝐵 𝑚 ,n′≠n
1−∏ tanh(
𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑗 𝑚,𝑛′
2
)n∈𝐵 𝑚 ,n′≠n
) (7)
where 𝑃𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑗 𝑛,𝑚 represents the probability that parity-check m is satisfied if bit n is supposed to be a 1 for
the LLR.
 Step3(Codeword test):
𝐿 𝑄𝑖 = 𝐿𝑐𝑖 𝑛+∑ 𝑃𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑗 𝑚,𝑛m∈𝐴 𝑛
(8)
where 𝐿 𝑄𝑖 represents the collective log-likelihood ratio for nth
digit, is the addition of the extrinsic messages
and the original LLR that was calculated in the first Step.
For every bit a hard decision will be done:
𝑣ℎ𝑎𝑡 = {
1, 𝐿 𝑄𝑖 < 0
0, 𝐿 𝑄𝑖 > 0.
(9)
If vhat a valid codeword (HvhatT
= 0), or if the maximum iteration’s number are ended,
the algorithm will be terminated.
 Step4(BN-to-CN messages): The message sent from every BN n to CN m that it is connected to, it is
similar to (8), except that bit 𝑛 sends to CN m a LLR computed without using the information from CN
𝑚′ [25]:
𝐿𝑞𝑖𝑗 𝑚,𝑛= 𝐿𝑐𝑖 𝑛 + ∑ 𝑃𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑗 𝑚′,𝑛m′∈𝐴 𝑛,𝑚′≠𝑚 (10)
3. XSG IMPLEMENTATION OF LDPC CODE BASED ON LOG DECODER
The system in Figure 2 is implemented using XSG. All blocks are corresponding to the blocks in
Figure 1. The detail description of each XSG component is presented:

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Figure 2. LDPC system using XSG
3.1. Transmitter section
The transmitter section consists of source input, serial to parallel, LDPC encoder and modulation.
Each one of these blocks is designed using XSG in Simulink/Matlab program.
3.1.1. Source input
The block of Bernoulli Binary Generator has been used to generate the Bernoulli Binary Signal.
The performance of the suggested system has been tested through using the binary data. The setting of this
block is as the following: the sample time is 1 and the format of the resulting data is Boolean. The gateway-in
has been used in order to convert the data to unsigned format with Word Length (WL) is 1 and Fraction
Length (FL) is 0. The output from this block will be the source input to the LDPC encoder.
3.1.2. Serial to parallel block(S/P)
This block is existing in XSG tools. The bit’s number is 10 in this block and 1 is used for latency.
The resulting from this block is a symbol of 10 bits which can be converted to parallel bits. The slice block
has been used to choose a particular sort of bits from every sample in the input. There are ten slice blocks to
extract the ten bits. The number of bits in each slice is 1 and the format of the resulting data is unsigned with
WL is 2 and FL is 0. The block diagram of S/P in XSG is shown in Figure 3.
3.1.3. LDPC encoder
The LDPC encoder consists of xor gates and concat block which are available in XSG library.
The generator matrix method has been used for encoding each message. Each xor gate denotes the parity
check equation for every row of the H matrix in (1). The output of these gates will then enter to the concat
block to get a symbol of 20 bits which represent the encoded message. The block diagram of LDPC encoder
in XSG is shown in Figure 4.

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3.1.4. Modulation
The modulation block consists of parallel to serial block and mapping block. Every bit from
the serial data has represented as an address to the ROM to indicate either the phase of {00
} or the phase
of {1800
}. The initial value vector for the ROM is [-1 1]. The format of the resulting data will be signed with
WL is two bits and FL is zero bit. Then delay has been linked for enabling pin of the ROM block to mask all
the serial bits till they are ready for map process. The delay is used here for synchronizing between
the current bit and the previous bit. The XSG block of modulation is shown in Figure 5.
Figure 3. S/P converter in XSG
Figure 4. Block diagram of LDPC encoder in XSG

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3.2. AWGN channel
The AWGN channel has been used for testing the performance of the system, where random signals
are added with the received signals. The AWGN generator is a system generator block set used to generate
random signals with Gaussian distribution of zero mean and unity variance with WL is 18 bits and FL is 16
bits. The output of AWGN is multiplied by a constant that represents the square root of N0 then the result
from this multiplication will be added with each bit of the transmitted signal to represent the noise for
different SNR. The XSG block diagram of AWGN channel is illustrated in Figure 6.
Figure 5. Block diagram of modulation in XSG Figure 6. AWGN channel in XSG
3.3. Receiver part
The receiver section consists of the following blocks:
3.3.1. Initialization
Initialization is implemented by multiplying each bit by the value of -4/N0, where N0 is the noise
variance for each Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) according to (4). For SNR from 0 to 7 the values of N0 are 1,
0.7943, 0.6310, 0.5012, 0.3981, 0.3162, 0.2512 and 0.1995 respectively. This process will be applied to 20
bits serially as shown in Figure 7. After this, the sign value will be computed for each bit beside the absolute
value in order to apply (7) to each bit as shown in Figure 8.
Figure 7. XSG block diagram of initialization Figure 8. XSG block diagram of alphaij block
3.3.2. Serial to parallel
Serial to parallel block has been used for converting the serial samples to parallel samples,
where each sample is with format WL is 18 bits and FL is 16 bits and 20 latches registers have been used to
mask the parallel 20 samples. This block has been implemented using shift registers. The block diagram of
serial to parallel in XSG is shown in Figure 9

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Figure 9. Block diagram of serial to parallel in XSG
3.3.3. Log Decoder
The inputs to this block are symbols of 20 bits and the outputs will be symbols of 10 bits which
represent the information message after the decoding process as shown in Figure 10. The blocks in part A
represent the horizontal step and the blocks in part B represent the vertical step.
Figure 10. Block diagram of log decoder in XSG
3.3.3.1 Horizontal Step
In this step, the computations are made based on the number of 1s in every column of the ten rows
in the PCM. The extrinsic probabilities for each bit are computed by multiplying the sign value for each bit
by the summation of the probabilities of non-zero bits in each row. The computations will depend on
the number of non-zero columns in every row as shown in Figure 11.

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Figure 11. Extrinsic probabilities for row1
3.3.3.2. Vertical Step
In this step, bit messages have been updated depending on the summation of the extrinsic
probabilities for each bit with the LLR without using the information from CN 𝑚′, also the decision is made
for each bit by combining the extrinsic probabilities for every bit and the LLR from the channel. The decision
for decoding each bit based on its value if it is positive or negative if the value is negative the bit is one
otherwise is zero as shown in Figure 12.
Figure 12. Decoding decision for column 11
3.3.4 Down Sample and Parallel to serial
The resulting symbols from the decoding process which represent the information part will then
enter to the down sample block which is implemented for decreasing the rate of the signal at the receiver.
The parameters for this block are sample rate is 20 and latency is one. After this stage, these bits will be
transformed from parallel data to serial data by using concat block and parallel to serial block as shown in
Figure 13.

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Figure 13. XSG block diagram of down sample block with concat and parallel to serial
4. RESULTS AND ANALYSIS
The XSG simulation waveforms for each block of the system model is plotted using Matlab
program. Figure 14 shows XSG time waveforms of S/P block. The time representation of LDPC encoder and
the modulation block are depicted in Figures 15 and 16 respectively. Figures 17 shows the time waveform of
the output of the AWGN channel. Figure 18 shows XSG time waveforms of the initialization process.
Figure 19 shows XSG time waveforms of the decoding and down sample for the first bit. Figure 20 shows
XSG time waveform of the concat block output. The comparison between XSG time waveform of
the transmitter and receiver is shown in Figure 21. Table 1 illustrates the BER results comparison between
Matlab/simulation and XSG.
Figure 14. XSG time waveforms of the S/P

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Figure 15. XSG time waveform of the LDPC encoder output
Figure 16. XSG time waveforms of the modulation block

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Figure 17. XSG time waveform of the AWGN channel
Figure 18. XSG time waveforms of the initialization process

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Figure 19. XSG time waveforms of the decoding and down sample for the first bit
Figure 20. XSG time waveform of the concat block output

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Figure 21. Comparing the signal at the transmitter and at the receiver
Table 1. Comparing the BER in Matlab/simulation and BER in FPGA
SNR(dB) BER simulation BER FPGA
0 0.1429 0.1089
1 0.1000 0.09901
2 0.0786 0.06931
3 0.0286 0.0396
4 0.0429 0.0495
5 0 0.009901
6 0 0.009901
7 0 0
5. SYNTHESIS REPORTS
The Vhdl code can be generated by choosing the FPGA device of kintex7 (XC7K325T-2FFG900C)
and Vivado 2017.4 program. The device utilization summary of LDPC system is presented in Table 2.
The minimum period is 26.278ns and the maximum frequency is 38.055MHz. In addition, the proposed
LDPC system based on log domain decoder has been tested and downloaded successfully on the FPGA
device kintex7 (XC7K325T-2FFG900C) as shown in Figure 22.
Table 2. Device utilization summary of log decoder system
Resource Utilization Available Utilization Percentage
LUT 44120 203800 21.65
LUTRAM 253 64000 0.40
FF 3571 407600 0.92
BRAM 4.50 445 1.01
DSP 193 840 22.98
Number of bonded IOBs 4 500 0.80
BUFG 1 32 3.13

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Figure 22. Test the system using kintex7 (XC7K325T-2FFG900C)
6. CONCLUSION
A complete LDPC decoder system based log domain algorithm has been designed and implemented
successfully by using XSG. The software tools Xilinx Vivado 2017.4 and kintex7 (XC7K325T-2FFG900C)
have been used in the implementation. The obtained results from the system proved that the system works
correctly with results very close to theoretical results. The results confirm that such decoder can be applied
with a new communication system according to its low complexity and low BER. FPGA results for BER
were 0.1089, 0.09901, 0.06931, 0.0396, 0.0495, 0.009901, 0.009901 and zero for SNR values from 0, 1,
2,….,7 respectively. The worst BER is achieved when the SNR value is zero while the best BER is achieved
when the SNR value is 7. This is mean increasing the SNR value will lead to significant improvement in
BER due to the increase in signal power over the noise power. The results confirm that the theoretical results
based on pure simulation are very close to those results of FPGA implementation as indicated in Table 1.
That means the proposed system can be implemented successfully in modern communications.
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BIOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORS
Mahmood F. Mosleh. He received his B.Sc, M.Sc and Ph.D degrees in 1995, 2000 and 2008
respectively. He has been a Prof. of Communication Eng. at the MTU, Iraq. He has more than 35
publications in national and international conferences and journals. Prof. Mahmood is a member of
IEC and he is the head of Iraqi committee of IEC.
Fadhil S. Hasan was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1978. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical
Engineering in 2000 and his M.Sc. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering in
2003, both from the Mustansiriyah University, Iraq. He received Ph.D. degree in 2013 in
Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Basrah University, Iraq. In 2005, he joined
the faculty of Engineering at the Mustansiriyah University in Baghdad. His recent research
activities cover wireless communication systems, multicarrier system, wavelet based OFDM,
MIMO system, speech signal processing, chaotic modulation, FPGA and Xilinx system generator
based communication system. Now he has been an assistant Prof. at AL Mustansiriyah University,
Iraq.
Ruaa Majeed Azeez was born in Iraq on March 11, 1989. She received her B.Sc. in Computer
Engineering Techniques, Middle Technical University, Baghdad Iraq, in 2011. She worked as a
teaching assistant in AL Furat AL Awsat Technical University since 2013. She is currently
pursuing her MSc. program in Computer Technical Engineering with an emphasis in
communication systems.

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