... requirements of the slowest standards and only with high degrees of parallelism (and so with increasedpower consumption).For this reason, this paper develops an accurate fixed-point model of a decoder ... universal,multistandard decoder of channel codes, capable of supporting the two classes of codes and having reduced requirements in terms of silicon area and power consumption and so suitable ... register(LFSR) whose output bits ci, i = 0, 1, also called paritybits, are a function of the status S of the register, of theforward/backward connections (called taps), and of the input bit u entering...