Cost-Efficient Partially-Parallel Irregular LDPC Decoder with Message Passing Schedule

This paper proposes an improved message passing schedule for irregular LDPC decoder. Redundant memory accesses and column operations are removed by utilizing the characteristics of partial-parallel irregular LDPC decoding algorithm. As a result, the memory access frequency and hardware cost are efficiently reduced. According to the experimental results and comparison with existing work, proposed decoder provides a 30% hardware area reduction and a 36% power consumption saving with the same error correcting performance.