Comments on "Techniques and Architectures for Hazard-Free Semi-Parallel Decoding of LDPC Codes"

1.1. Point 1: Cited Papers. Gunnam et al. claim that we did not cite correctly their work [2] and refer to other four publications of their own to provide further explanation. Actually the introductory section of our work [3] aims at providing an overview of the state-of-the-art architectures on the subject. The five works by Gunnam et al. basically propose the same LDPC architecture where the description of all the features is spread across the five publications. As a matter of fact, to be fair and balanced with the other state-of-the-art architectures we have decided to cite only one of their works and particularly the one providing the most details regarding the architecture and the implementation results [2]. Finally the selected paper was correctly cited in our work [3] with no misleading information or wrong assertion regarding the architecture described by Gunnam et al.