Future wireless networks put high requirements on many system components. Data rates of the order of 100 Gbps and beyond, currently used in wired optical networks only, are expected for 5G applications. This imposes high effort with respect to code design and decoding algorithms. Due to their low complexity, LDPC codes are an essential part of many modern communication systems. Additionally, high symbol rates will require high-rate analog-to-digital conversion which turns out to be very power consuming. In order to explore trade-offs between hardware complexity and digital baseband processing, this contribution investigates the bit error rate performance and soft Monte Carlo simulation of LDPC codes together with reduced-complexity analog-to-digital conversion.