MATLAB: How to compute the delay applied to the Delay block inside the viterbi decoder subsystem in the demo “dvbt_sim.mdl” in Communications Blockset 3.3 (R2006a)

Question

In "dvbt_sim.mdl", there is viterbi decoder subsystem. Inside this subsystem there is a Delay block which is set to "584+69". How is this delay value determined?

Answer 1

The total delay being introduced in the Inner Interleaver and the Inner Deinterleaver subsystems due to the Buffer blocks is :-

2176-to-756 = 756 (in single-tasking mode)

756-to-9072 = 9072

9072-to-756 = 0 (as 756*12=9072)

756-to-2176 = 2176

which totals 12004.

We then take mod(12004,2176) where 2176 is the input to the Viterbi Decoder, this gives us 1124. For 4/3 decoding, this is a total delay of 1124*3/4 = 843 samples.

With a traceback depth of 136, the Viterbi decoder also adds a further delay of 136, bringing the total delay to 843+136 = 979.

Now to align the actual codewords before feeding into the Convolutional Deinterleaver we have to add in an extra delay of 1632-979 = 653 samples.

Note that the “584+69” is an artifact of an earlier version of the demo.