Articles | Volume 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/ars-16-43-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/ars-16-43-2018
04 Sep 2018
 | 04 Sep 2018

Polar Code decoder exploration framework

Claus Kestel, Stefan Weithoffer, and Norbert Wehn

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Short summary
We present a modular framework to automatically generate and evaluate a wide range of Polar Code decoders, with emphasis on design space exploration for efficient hardware architectures. To demonstrate the efficiency of our framework a very high throughput SCAN Polar Code decoder is shown that was automatically generated. This decoder is, to the best of our knowledge, the fastest SCAN Polar Code decoder published so far.