Publications by Andreas Peter Burg

Iterative Logistic Weight Based Chase Decoder for Open Forward Error Correction

Andreas Peter Burg, Yifei Shen, Yuqing Ren

We propose an iterative logistic weight based decoder for open forward error correction (oFEC) codes. Compared to Chase-Pyndiah decoding with 93 error patterns, our decoder achieves similar performance with lower complexity. ...

Optica Publishing Group2025

Toward Universal Belief Propagation Decoding for Short Binary Block Codes

Andreas Peter Burg, Yifei Shen, Yuqing Ren

Belief propagation (BP) decoding has been recognized for its capacity-approaching performance and high throughput when decoding long low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. However, the application of BP decoding for short codes is hindered by dense parity- ...

2025

An Ultra Low Power Analog/Mixed-Signal Processor for a Smart RF Signal Classification System in the ISM Band

Catherine Dehollain, Andreas Peter Burg

In this work, we propose an ultra-low power highly configurable analog/mixed-signal (AMS) processor as part of a smart RF signal detection and recognition system focusing on the ISM band. The analog feature extraction approach reduces power consumption and ...

IEEE2025

An SDR-Based Monostatic Wi-Fi System with Analog Self-Interference Cancellation for Sensing

Andreas Peter Burg, Andreas Toftegaard Kristensen

Wireless sensing offers an alternative to wearables for contactless monitoring of human activity and vital signs. However, most existing systems use bistatic setups, which suffer from phase imperfections due to unsynchronized clocks. Monostatic systems ove ...

IEEE2025

Edge-Spreading Raptor-Like LDPC Codes for 6G Wireless Systems

Andreas Peter Burg, Yifei Shen, Yuqing Ren

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2025

Device-Free Floor-Scale Human Detection With Indoor LTE Antennas

Andreas Peter Burg, Sitian Li

This paper introduces a novel method for device-free human detection by leveraging existing wireless communication signals from 4G-long-term evolution (4G-LTE) systems. By utilizing the pervasive 4G-LTE signals, our approach enhances the efficiency and cov ...

2025

LoRa Fine Synchronization with Two-Pass Time and Frequency Offset Estimation

Andreas Peter Burg, Joachim Tobias Tapparel

LoRa is currently one of the most widely used low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies. The physical layer leverages a chirp spread spectrum modulation to achieve long-range communication with low power consumption. Synchronization at long distance ...

IEEE2024

A Generalized Adjusted Min-Sum Decoder for 5G LDPC Codes: Algorithm and Implementation

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Yifei Shen, Yuqing Ren, Hassan Harb

5G New Radio (NR) has stringent demands on both performance and complexity for the design of low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoding algorithms and corresponding VLSI implementations. Furthermore, decoders must fully support the wide range of all 5G NR bl ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Learning-based Hand Gesture Classification using Channel Impulse Response with UWB

Andreas Peter Burg, Sitian Li

The channel impulse response (CIR) of the wireless propagation channel is influenced by the surrounding environment and thus can be used to retrieve environmental information such as location, the presence of objects, and the speed of objects. In this work ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

A High Dynamic Range Envelop Detector for Heterodyne Receiver Architecture

Catherine Dehollain, Andreas Peter Burg

Energy detection (ED) has been of interest for various applications ranging from very low frequency biomedical signal read-out to high frequency wireless communication. The analog implementation of the ED requires circuits with a non-linear transfer charac ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

High-Throughput and Flexible Belief Propagation List Decoder for Polar Codes

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Chuan Zhang, Andreas Toftegaard Kristensen, Yifei Shen, Yuqing Ren

Due to its high parallelism, belief propagation (BP)decoding is amenable to high-throughput applications and thusrepresents a promising solution for the ultra-high peak datarate required by future communication systems. To bridge theperformance gap compare ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Fin field-effect transistor (finfet) based semiconductor memory array having memory cells with a reduced surface area

Andreas Peter Burg, Robert Giterman, Halil Andac Yigit

A fin field-effect transistor (FinFET) based semiconductor memory array having a plurality of memory cells, each memory cell including a write transistor having a write wordline gate over a first fin connected to a write wordline gate contact, a write bitl ...

2024

Monostatic Multi-Target Wi-Fi-Based Breathing Rate Sensing Using Openwifi

Andreas Peter Burg, Andreas Toftegaard Kristensen, Sitian Li

Continuous monitoring of human activity and vital signs has become increasingly important in healthcare and consumer applications. While wearables and others sensors are already in widespread use, they often suffer from issues such as discomfort and the ne ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

A Node-Based Polar List Decoder With Frame Interleaving and Ensemble Decoding Support

Andreas Peter Burg, Yifei Shen, Yuqing Ren

Node-based successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding has received considerable attention in wireless communications for its significant reduction in decoding latency, particularly with 5G New Radio (NR) polar codes. However, the existing node-based SCL d ...

2024

Analytical Modeling of Short-Channel MOSFET Differential Pair Non-Linearity

Christian Enz, Catherine Dehollain, Andreas Peter Burg, Hung-Chi Han

Energy efficiency is of utmost importance in modern applications. Power consumption optimisation could be improved by a comprehensive analytical modeling of the characteristics of critical blocks in a system. Dynamic range (DR) has a strong effect on the p ...

2024

Towards 6G: Configurable High-Throughput Decoder Implementation for SC-LDPC Codes

Wuzhou Song, Andreas Peter Burg, Yifei Shen, Yuqing Ren

Spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes are considered an important candidate for the upcoming 6G standardization, owing to their superior error-correction capability and practical decoding complexity. However, current high-throughput SC ...

IEEE2024

A 16-kB 65-nm GC-eDRAM Macro With Internal Bias Voltage Generation Providing Over 100-μs Retention Time

Andreas Peter Burg, Halil Andac Yigit

Gain-cell embedded dynamic random access memory (GC-eDRAM) has emerged as a suitable choice for embedded memory implementation due to its high density, low leakage current, and voltage scaling compatibility. This work presents a 16-kB 3T-1C GC-eDRAM macro, ...

2024

Centralized RAN for LPWAN: Architecture and Proof-of-Concept Prototype Implementation

Andreas Peter Burg, Joachim Tobias Tapparel

Centralized radio access networks (C-RAN) are widely recognized as an enabling technology for the evolution of cellular systems, including 5G and beyond. However, the concept is not limited to 3GPP cellular systems and licensed frequency bands. In recent y ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

A Low-Latency and High-Performance SCL Decoder with Frame-Interleaving

Andreas Peter Burg, Yifei Shen, Yuqing Ren

In this paper, we describe a frame-interleaving hardware architecture for a generalized node-based successive cancellation list (SCL) decoder. By efficiently reusing otherwise idle computational units, two independent frames can be decoded simultaneously, ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

A GRANDAB Decoder with 8.48 Gbps Worst-Case Throughput in 65nm CMOS

Andreas Peter Burg, Thomas Christoph Müller, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Andreas Toftegaard Kristensen, Yifei Shen, Yuqing Ren

We present an error correction code (ECC) decoder based on the Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) with ABandonment (GRANDAB) algorithm for applications that require constant throughput and fixed decoding latency in the Gbps range. This high co ...

IEEE Computer Society2024