This brief proposes a low-complexity first-two-minimum-values generator for a bit-serial scheme. Since the hardware complexity of generators utilizes a significant portion of the min-sum low-density parity-check decoder, a low-complexity generator is crucially important. To reduce hardware complexity, an existing bit-serial generator that finds only one minimum value instead of two has been proposed; however, it can cause bit error rate (BER) degradation. By contrast, the proposed low-complexity bit-serial generator can find the exact first two minimum values and thus can improve the BER performance. Moreover, the proposed generator does not suffer from any throughput loss since its latency is almost the same as that of the existing generator.
['Jea Hack Lee', 'Myung Hoon Sunwoo']
Low-Complexity First-Two-Minimum-Values Generator for Bit-Serial LDPC Decoding