Abstract
In this paper, we describe a parallel algorithm for LDPC (Low Density Parity Check codes) decoding on a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) using CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture). The strategy of the kernel grid and block design is shown and the multiword decoding operation is described using tridimensional blocks. The performance (speedup) of the proposed parallel algorithm is slightly better than the performance found in the literature when this is relatively good, and shows a great improvement in those cases with previously reported moderate or bad performance. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
