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PolarBear: A 28-nm FD-SOI ASIC for Decoding of Polar Codes

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Andrea Bonetti, Pascal Giard, Thomas Christoph Müller

Polar codes are a recently proposed class of block codes that provably achieve the capacity of various communication channels. They received a lot of attention as they can do so with low-complexity encoding and decoding algorithms, and they have an explici ...

2017

Blind detection of polar codes

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Pascal Giard

Polar codes were recently chosen to protect the control channel information in the next-generation mobile communication standard (5G) defined by the 3GPP. As a result, receivers will have to implement blind detection of polar coded frames in order to keep ...

2017

Fast Low-Complexity Decoders for Low-Rate Polar Codes

Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Pascal Giard

Polar codes are capacity-achieving error-correcting codes with an explicit construction that can be decoded with low-complexity algorithms. In this work, we show how the state-of-the-art low-complexity decoding algorithm can be improved to better accommoda ...

2018

A Standalone FPGA-Based Miner for Lyra2REv2 Cryptocurrencies

Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Pascal Giard

Lyra2REv2 is a hashing algorithm that consists of a chain of individual hashing algorithms, and it is used as a proof-of-work function in several cryptocurrencies. The most crucial and exotic hashing algorithm in the Lyra2REv2 chain is a specific instance ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Comparison of Polar Decoders with Existing Low-Density Parity-Check and Turbo Decoders

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Pascal Giard

Polar codes are a recently proposed family of provably capacity-achieving error-correction codes that received a lot of attention. While their theoretical properties render them interesting, their practicality compared to other types of codes has not been ...

Ieee2017

A Lyra2 FPGA Core for Lyra2REv2-Based Cryptocurrencies

Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Pascal Giard

Lyra2REv2 is a hashing algorithm that consists of a chain of individual hashing algorithms and it is used as a proof-of-work function in several cryptocurrencies that aim to be ASIC-resistant. The most crucial hashing algorithm in the Lyra2REv2 chain is a ...

IEEE2019

On the Tradeoff Between Accuracy and Complexity in Blind Detection of Polar Codes

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Pascal Giard

Polar codes are a recent family of error-correcting codes with a number of desirable characteristics. Their disruptive nature is illustrated by their rapid adoption in the 5 th-generation mobile-communication standard, where they are used to protect contro ...

IEEE2018

Fast-SSC-Flip Decoding of Polar Codes

Andreas Peter Burg, Pascal Giard

Polar codes are widely considered as one of the most exciting recent discoveries in channel coding. For short to moderate block lengths, their error-correction performance under list decoding can outperform that of other modern error-correcting codes. Howe ...

2018

A Multi-Gbps Unrolled Hardware List Decoder Systematic Polar Code

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Pascal Giard, Thomas Christoph Müller

Polar codes are a new class of block codes with an explicit construction that provably achieve the capacity of various communications channels, even with the low-complexity successive-cancellation (SC) decoding algorithm. Yet, the more complex successive-c ...

2016

Hardware Decoders for Polar Codes: An Overview

Andreas Peter Burg, Pascal Giard

Polar codes are an exciting new class of error correcting codes that achieve the symmetric capacity of memoryless channels. Many decoding algorithms were developed and implemented, addressing various application requirements: from error-correction performa ...

Ieee2016