Design and Implementation of a Hardware Module for MIMO Decoding in a 4G Wireless Receiver

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Parameters of the modes implemented in the
demonstrator.

VLSI Design

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Table 1

Table 1: Design and Implementation of a Hardware Module for MIMO Decoding in a 4G Wireless Receiver 