[TuB3] Coding and Equalization

[TuB3-1] Hardware-Efficient Quantized Polar Decoding with Optimized Lookup Table

Invited

〇Toshiaki Koike-Akino¹, Ye Wang¹, Semih Cayci², David S. Millar¹, Keisuke Kojima¹, Kieran Parsons¹ (¹Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA, ²The Ohio State Univ., USA)

Keywords:Coding and forward error correction for optical communications

We propose an energy-efficient polar decoding which employs optimized lookup tables (LUTs) to minimize the mutual information loss caused by finite-precision hardware implementations. We show that nearly lossless designs are feasible with few-bit LUTs.