The thesis work will be carried out in the Algorithm-Silicon Interaction team of the “Laboratoire des Sciences et Techniques

Context: The thesis work will be carried out in the Algorithm-Silicon Interaction team of the “Laboratoire des Sciences et Techniques de l’Information, de la Communication et de la Connaissance” (Lab-STICC), research unit UMR 6285 of the French National Scientific Research Centre. The research activity of the team is mainly dedicated to the development of new algorithms and architectures for digital communications. Since the invention of turbo codes in the early nineties, the team has been internationally recognized for its expertise in Forward Error Correction (FEC) coding, coded modulations and iterative processing. Its scientific work was awarded by several national and international prizes, including the 2003 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, the 2005 Marconi Prize or the 2009 IEEE/SEE Glavieux Prize. The team has contributed to the study of innovative FEC codes and coded modulations in several European collaborative projects: in the DaVinci project (http://www.ict-davincicodes.eu/), we acquired strong experience in Non-Binary (NB) Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC) decoding architectures [1], which was recently valued via licensing of patents to France Brevet in January 2013. In the Eurêka/Celtic B21C (http://www.celticinitiative.org/Projects/Celtic-projects/Call4/B21C/), Eurêka/Celtic ENGINES and Eurêka/Eurostars SME42, the team studied coded modulation schemes for future fixed and mobile TV broadcasting systems. A modulation scheme with signal-space diversity was designed and adopted in the second European standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television DVB-T2. The team has also been active in several ad-hoc groups of the DVB technical module (DVB-T2, DVB-RCS2, DVB-NGH).