Research Article

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

Table 2

Comparison of parameters of asynchronous Viterbi decoder for various constraint lengths.

Parameters
Constraint length ()Transistor countPower consumptionFrequencyDelay

4 211650.47 mW433 MHz 3 ms
5 321872.54 mW452 MHz2.21 ms
6 432083.80 mW488 MHz2.04 ms
7 5364 89.32 mW530 MHz1.88 ms