Design of a Complete BCH Codec for DVB-S2 Applications
- Falcão, G.; Gomes, M.; Silva, V.; L. C. S. Silva; N. A. M. Marques; Falcão;
"Design of a Complete BCH Codec for DVB-S2 Applications
", Proc
Jornadas sobre Sistemas Reconfiguráveis - REC
,
Braga
,
Portugal
, Vol.
1
, pp.
75
-
80
,
February
,
2008
.
Abstract
Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghen (BCH) codes are used as the outer coding in the Forward Error Correction system for the second-generation of the Digital Video Broadcasting Standard (DVB-S2). The high-speed requirements, long block length codes and adaptive encoding defined in the DVB-S2 standard, present complex challenges in the design of an efficient hardware implementation of BCH encoding and decoding systems.
In this paper, synthesizable HDL models for a complete BCH codec, which support the 21 BCH different codes defined in the DVB-S2 standard are proposed. The encoder is based on a serial architecture, while the decoder architecture is parallel. An efficient Chien search circuit for shortened BCH codes is also proposed. Synthesis results for an FPGA device from Xilinx are reported.
