In this paper, we address the issues of designing low power VLSI implementation of the Viterbi decoder. We propose a new VLSI architecture for carrying out the add-compare-select (ACS) operation for the Viterbi decoder which can reduce the complexity of the computation. Also a novel pre-computational architecture is proposed to further reduce the power consumption of the ACS unit
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Circuits and Systems, 1999. ISCAS '99. Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on
(Volume:1
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Date of Conference: Jul 1999