CODE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION IMPROVEMENTS FOR LOW DENSITY PARITY CHECK CODES FOR MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT CHANNELS

摘要

Methods and systems for designing LDPC codes (102) are disclosed. A method in accordance with the present invention comprises configuring a plurality of parallel accumulation engines (500), a number of the plurality of parallel accumulation engines (500) equal to M, accumulating a first information bit at a first set of specific parity bit addresses (502) using the plurality of parallel accumulation engines (500), increasing a parity bit address (504) for each member of the first set of specific parity bit addresses by a pre-determined offset for each new information bit, accumulating subsequent information bits at parity bit addresses that are offset from the specific parity bit addresses by a pre-determined offset until an M+1 information bit is reached (506), accumulating the next M information bits at a second set of specific parity bit addresses using the plurality of parallel accumulation engines (508), increasing a parity bit address for each member of the second set of specific parity bit addresses by the pre-determined offset for each new information bit (510); and repeating accumulating and increasing the addresses until the information bits are exhausted (512).