Research Article

An Asynchronous Low Power and High Performance VLSI Architecture for Viterbi Decoder Implemented with Quasi Delay Insensitive Templates

Table 3

Comparison of parameters of Asynchronous Viterbi decoder with the state of art from existing designs [19].

ParametersSynchronous design Asynchronous design Asynchronous design Asynchronous QDI design

Technology0.25 um0.35 um0.18 um180 nm
No. of states64646464
Code rate
Max Speed200 Mb/s90 Mb/s213 Mb/s433 Mb/s
Avg. Power183 mW1333 mW85 mW74.03 mW