Abstract—In this correspondence, the construction of low-density
parity-check (LDPC) codes from circulant permutation matrices is
investigated. It is shown that such codes cannot have a Tanner graph
representation with girth larger than 12, and a relatively mild necessary
and sufficient condition for the code to have a girth of 6 8 10 or 12
is derived. These results suggest that families of LDPC codes with such
girth values are relatively easy to obtain and, consequently, additional
parameters such as the minimum distance or the number of redundant
check sums should be considered. To this end, a necessary condition for the
codes investigated to reach their maximum possible minimum Hamming
distance is proposed.