Architectural Optimizations for a High-Throughput Sorted QR Decomposition Circuit in MIMO Communication Systems

This paper presents the VLSI architecture of a low-latency and high-throughput sorted-QR decomposition (SQRD) engine for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems. In order to ach...

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