Abstract—In this letter, we propose an efficient decoding algorithm for turbo product codes as introduced by Pyndiah. The proposed decoder has no performance degradation and reduces the complexity of the original decoder by an order of magni

A full-parallel architecture for turbo decoding, which achieves ultrahigh data rates when using product codes as error correcting codes, is proposed. This architecture is able to decode product codes using binary BCH or m-ary Reed-Solomon compo