Talk Title: When Channel Coding hits the Implementation Wall
Abstract:
The continuous demands to higher throughput in communications systems, in addition to higher spectral efficiency and lowest signal processing latencies, leads to throughput requirements for the digital baseband signal processing far beyond 100Gbit/s. This is one to two orders of magnitude higher than the tens of Gbit/s targeted in the 5G standardization. At the same time, advances in silicon technology due to shrinking feature sizes and increased performance parameters alone won’t provide the necessary gain, especially in energy efficiency for wireless transceivers, which have tightly constrained power and energy budgets. The focus of this talk lies on channel coding that is a major source of complexity in digital baseband processing. We will highlight implementation challenges for the most advanced channel coding techniques, i.e. Turbo-Codes, LDPC codes and Polar codes, and discuss approaches to tackle these challenges.
Biography:
Norbert Wehn holds the chair for Microelectronic System Design in the department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Kaiserslautern. He has more than 300 publications in various fields of microelectronic system design and holds several patents. Two start-ups spinout of his research group. He served as Vice-President of the University Kaiserslautern, associate editor of various journals and member of several scientific advisory boards. He was program chair and general chair the DATE conference, and general Co-Chair of FPL. Currently he is chairman of the European Design Automation Association. His special research interests are VLSI-architectures for mobile communication, forward error correction techniques, low-power techniques, advanced SoC and memory architectures, 3D integration, reliability issues, and hardware accelerators for financial mathematics, big data applications and machine learning.