Fixed-Point Implementation of an Efficient Low-Complexity Turbo-Equalization Scheme

This paper investigates the realization of an efficient low-complexity turbo-equalizer under fixedpoint data representation and computation constraints. We address the quantization issues that arise in the receiver design, and expose a simple computation procedure for the equalizer coefficients. The proposed solution is well-suited for a DSP implementation on low cost 16 bits fixed-point devices such as Texas Instrument next generation C55x platform. The simulation results show a performance loss of 0.2 dB in comparison with the ideal unquantized receiver on a specific channel model. 1