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A High-Speed Low-Complexity Time-Multiplexing Reed-Solomon-Based FEC Architecture for Optical Communications

Jeong-In PARK, Hanho LEE

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A high-speed low-complexity time-multiplexing Reed-Solomon-based forward error correction architecture based on the pipelined truncated inversionless Berlekamp-Massey algorithm is presented in this paper. The proposed architecture has very high speed and very low hardware complexity compared with conventional Reed-Solomon-based forward error correction architectures. Hardware complexity is improved by employing a truncated inverse Berlekamp-Massey algorithm. A high-speed and high-throughput data rate is facilitated by employing a three-parallel processing pipelining technique and modified syndrome computation block. The time-multiplexing method for pipelined truncated inversionless Berlekamp-Massey architecture is used in the parallel Reed-Solomon decoder to reduce hardware complexity. The proposed architecture has been designed and implemented with 90-nm CMOS technology. Synthesis results show that the proposed 16-channel Reed-Solomon-based forward error correction architecture requires 417,600 gates and can operate at 640 MHz to achieve a throughput of 240 Gb/s. The proposed architecture can be readily applied to Reed-Solomon-based forward error correction devices for next-generation short-reach optical communications.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E95-A No.12 pp.2424-2429
Publication Date
2012/12/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E95.A.2424
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
VLSI Design Technology and CAD

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