Optimal Designing Approach to Recursive Coding in VLSI Design

The focus of this paper is towards developing an application specific design methodology for low power solutions in recursive coding system. The methodology starts from high level models which can be used for software solution and proceeds towards high performance hardware solutions. Recursive encoder/decoder, a key component of the emerging 3G mobile communications is used for the implementation. The application performance measure, namely bit-error rate (BER) is used as a design constraint while optimizing for power and area coverage.