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International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting
Volume 2008, Article ID 245305, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/245305
Research Article

Design of a VLSI Decoder for Partially Structured LDPC Codes

Fabrizio Vacca,1 Libero Dinoi,2 and Guido Masera1

1Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy
2Elettronica S.p.A., 00131 Roma, Italy

Received 3 April 2008; Revised 1 July 2008; Accepted 27 August 2008

Academic Editor: Fred Daneshgaran

Copyright © 2008 Fabrizio Vacca et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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