One of the key aspects of turbo codes is that they use soft-input and soft-output values in the decoding stage. Thus no information is discarded until the algorithm has iteratively converged to a solution, at which time a hard decision is taken. The soft-input soft-output concept refers to infinite quantized or analog values in a natural form. This research work proposes CMOS integrated circuit implementations of both the encoding and the decoding algorithms. In particular it explores an all-analog decoder implementation that will naturally exploit the continuous nature of the received...