State of the art baseband DSP platforms for Software Defined Radio: A survey
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paper_title: Software Radio Architecture: Object-Oriented Approaches to Wireless Systems Engineering

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paper_title: Multicarrier modulation for data transmission: an idea whose time has come

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The general technique of parallel transmission on many carriers, called multicarrier modulation (MCM), is explained. The performance that can be achieved on an undistorted channel and algorithms for achieving that performance are discussed. Ways of dealing with channel impairments and of improving the performance through coding are described, and implementation methods are considered. Duplex operation of MCM and the possible use of this on the general switched telephone network are examined. >
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paper_title: On Complexity, Energy- and Implementation-Efficiency of Channel Decoders

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Future wireless communication systems require efficient and flexible baseband receivers. Meaningful efficiency metrics are key for design space exploration to quantify the algorithmic and the implementation complexity of a receiver. Most of the current established efficiency metrics are based on counting operations, thus neglecting important issues like data and storage complexity. In this paper we introduce suitable energy and area efficiency metrics which resolve the afore-mentioned disadvantages. These are decoded information bit per energy and throughput per area unit. Efficiency metrics are assessed by various implementations of turbo decoders, LDPC decoders and convolutional decoders. An exploration approach is presented, which permit an appropriate benchmarking of implementation efficiency, communications performance, and flexibility trade-offs. Two case studies demonstrate this approach and show that design space exploration should result in various efficiency evaluations rather than a single snapshot metric as done often in state-of-the-art approaches.
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paper_title: Channel decoder architecture for 3G mobile wireless terminals

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Channel coding is a key element of any digital wireless communication system since it minimizes the effects of noise and interference on the transmitted signal. In third-generation (3G) wireless systems channel coding techniques must serve both voice and data users whose requirements considerably vary. Thus the third generation partnership project (3GPP) standard offers two coding techniques, convolutional-coding for voice and turbo-coding for data services. In this paper we present a combined channel decoding architecture for 3G terminal applications. It outperforms a solution based on two separate decoders due to an efficient reuse of computational hardware and memory resources for both decoders. Moreover it supports blind transport format detection. Special emphasis is put on low energy consumption.
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paper_title: OFDM Baseband Receiver Design for Wireless Communications

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Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) access schemes are becoming more prevalent among cellular and wireless broadband systems, accelerating the need for smaller, more energy efficient receiver solutions. Up to now the majority of OFDM texts have dealt with signal processing aspects. To address the current gap in OFDM integrated circuit (IC) instruction, Chiueh and Tsai have produced this timely text on baseband design. OFDM Baseband Receiver Design for Wireless Communications covers the gamut of OFDM technology, from theories and algorithms to architectures and circuits. Chiueh and Tsai give a concise yet comprehensive look at digital communications fundamentals before explaining modulation and signal processing algorithms in OFDM receivers. Moreover, the authors give detailed treatment of hardware issues -- from design methodology to physical IC implementation. Closes the gap between OFDM theory and implementation Enables the reader to transfer communication receiver concepts into hardware design wireless receivers with acceptable implementation loss achieve low-power designs Contains numerous figures to illustrate techniques Features concrete design examples of MC-CDMA systems and cognitive radio applications Presents theoretical discussions that focus on concepts rather than mathematical derivation Provides a much-needed single source of material from numerous papers Based on course materials for a class in digital communication IC design, this book is ideal for advanced undergraduate or post-graduate students from either VLSI design or signal processing backgrounds. New and experienced engineers in industry working on algorithms or hardware for wireless communications devices will also find this book to be a key reference.
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paper_title: High-speed tunable fractional-delay allpass filter structure

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By using a fractional delay (FD), a filter can perform various operations such as asynchronous sample rate conversion, synchronization of digital modems and sound synthesis of musical instruments. An IIR tunable FID filter can be designed using Thiran-based FD allpass filter structure. However, this IIR structure has the disadvantage of long critical path and large hardware overhead. In this paper, a modified Thiran-based FD allpass filter structure is proposed. Compared with the existing structure, the proposed structure requires shorter critical path, less hardware complexity and improved frequency characteristics.
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paper_title: OFDM Baseband Receiver Design for Wireless Communications

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Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) access schemes are becoming more prevalent among cellular and wireless broadband systems, accelerating the need for smaller, more energy efficient receiver solutions. Up to now the majority of OFDM texts have dealt with signal processing aspects. To address the current gap in OFDM integrated circuit (IC) instruction, Chiueh and Tsai have produced this timely text on baseband design. OFDM Baseband Receiver Design for Wireless Communications covers the gamut of OFDM technology, from theories and algorithms to architectures and circuits. Chiueh and Tsai give a concise yet comprehensive look at digital communications fundamentals before explaining modulation and signal processing algorithms in OFDM receivers. Moreover, the authors give detailed treatment of hardware issues -- from design methodology to physical IC implementation. Closes the gap between OFDM theory and implementation Enables the reader to transfer communication receiver concepts into hardware design wireless receivers with acceptable implementation loss achieve low-power designs Contains numerous figures to illustrate techniques Features concrete design examples of MC-CDMA systems and cognitive radio applications Presents theoretical discussions that focus on concepts rather than mathematical derivation Provides a much-needed single source of material from numerous papers Based on course materials for a class in digital communication IC design, this book is ideal for advanced undergraduate or post-graduate students from either VLSI design or signal processing backgrounds. New and experienced engineers in industry working on algorithms or hardware for wireless communications devices will also find this book to be a key reference.
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paper_title: CHANNEL ESTIMATION FOR OFDM SYSTEMS BASED ON COMB-TYPE PILOT ARRANGEMENT IN FREQUENCY SELECTIVE FADING CHANNELS

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The channel estimation methods for OFDM systems based on a comb-type pilot sub-carrier arrangement are investigated. The channel estimation algorithm based on comb-type pilots is divided into pilot signal estimation and channel interpolation. The pilot signal estimation based on LS or MMSE criteria, together with channel interpolation based on piecewise-linear interpolation or piecewise second-order polynomial interpolation is studied. Owing to the MMSE estimate of the pilot signals, the inter-carrier interference and additive white Gaussian noise are reduced considerably. The computational complexity of pilot signal estimation based on MMSE criterion can be reduced by using a simplified LMMSE estimator with low-rank approximation using singular value decomposition. Phase compensators before and after interpolation are also presented to combat the phase changes of subchannel symbols arising from the frame synchronization errors. Compared to the transform-domain processing based channel estimation algorithm the MMSE estimate of pilot signals together with phase compensated linear interpolation algorithm provides a better performance and requires less computations.
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paper_title: OFDM Baseband Receiver Design for Wireless Communications

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Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) access schemes are becoming more prevalent among cellular and wireless broadband systems, accelerating the need for smaller, more energy efficient receiver solutions. Up to now the majority of OFDM texts have dealt with signal processing aspects. To address the current gap in OFDM integrated circuit (IC) instruction, Chiueh and Tsai have produced this timely text on baseband design. OFDM Baseband Receiver Design for Wireless Communications covers the gamut of OFDM technology, from theories and algorithms to architectures and circuits. Chiueh and Tsai give a concise yet comprehensive look at digital communications fundamentals before explaining modulation and signal processing algorithms in OFDM receivers. Moreover, the authors give detailed treatment of hardware issues -- from design methodology to physical IC implementation. Closes the gap between OFDM theory and implementation Enables the reader to transfer communication receiver concepts into hardware design wireless receivers with acceptable implementation loss achieve low-power designs Contains numerous figures to illustrate techniques Features concrete design examples of MC-CDMA systems and cognitive radio applications Presents theoretical discussions that focus on concepts rather than mathematical derivation Provides a much-needed single source of material from numerous papers Based on course materials for a class in digital communication IC design, this book is ideal for advanced undergraduate or post-graduate students from either VLSI design or signal processing backgrounds. New and experienced engineers in industry working on algorithms or hardware for wireless communications devices will also find this book to be a key reference.
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paper_title: Software-Defined Radio Prospects for Multistandard Mobile Phones

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A multitude of existing and evolving cell phone standards, coupled with the need to react quickly to market requirements, is radically changing the system architect's task.Two alternative approaches to classic ASIC-centered and DSP-assisted designs have emerged: reconfigurable architectures and DSP-centered and accelerator-assisted architectures.
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paper_title: Embedded DSP Processor Design: Application Specific Instruction Set Processors

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This book provides design methods for Digital Signal Processors and Application Specific Instruction set Processors, based on the author's extensive, industrial design experience. Top-down and bottom-up design methodologies are presented, providing valuable guidance for both students and practicing design engineers. ::: ::: Coverage includes design of internal-external data types, application specific instruction sets, micro architectures, including designs for datapath and control path, as well as memory sub systems. Integration and verification of a DSP-ASIP processor are discussed and reinforced with extensive examples. ::: ::: FOR INSTRUCTORS: To obtain access to the solutions manual for this title simply register on our textbook website (textbooks.elsevier.com)and request access to the Computer Science or Electronics and Electrical Engineering subject area. Once approved (usually within one business day) you will be able to access all of the instructor-only materials through the ";Instructor Manual"; link on this book's full web page. ::: ::: * Instruction set design for application specific processors based on fast application profiling ::: * Micro architecture design methodology ::: * Micro architecture design details based on real examples ::: * Extendable architecture design protocols ::: * Design for efficient memory sub systems (minimizing on chip memory and cost) ::: * Real example designs based on extensive, industrial experiences
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paper_title: Bridging dream and reality: Programmable baseband processors for software-defined radio

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A programmable radio baseband signal processor is one of the essential enablers of software- defined radio. As wireless standards evolve, the processing power needed for baseband processing increases dramatically and the underlying hardware needs to cope with various standards or even simultaneously maintaining several radio links. Meanwhile, the maximum power consumption allowed by mobile terminals is still strictly limited. These challenges require both system and architecture level innovations. This article introduces a design methodology for radio baseband processors discussing the challenges and solutions of radio baseband signal processing. The LeoCore architecture is presented here as an example of a baseband processor design aimed at reducing power and silicon cost while maintaining sufficient flexibility.
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paper_title: An 11 mm$^{2}$ , 70 mW Fully Programmable Baseband Processor for Mobile WiMAX and DVB-T/H in 0.12$\ \mu$ m CMOS

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With the rapid evolution of wireless standards and increasing demand for multi-standard products, the need for flexible RF and baseband solutions is growing. Flexibility is required to be able to adapt to unstable standards and requirements without costly hardware re-spins, and also to enable hardware reuse between products and between multiple wireless standards in the same device, ultimately saving both development cost and silicon area. In this paper a fully programmable baseband processor suitable for standards such as DVB-T/H and mobile WiMAX is presented. The processor is based on the SIMT architecture which utilizes a unique type of vector instructions to provide processing parallelism while minimizing the control complexity of the processor. The architecture has been demonstrated in a prototype chip which was proven in a complete DVB-T/H system demonstrator. The chip occupies 11 mm2 in a 0.12 mum CMOS process. It includes 1.5 Mbit of single port SRAM and 200 k logic gates. The measured power consumption for the highest DVB-T/H data rate (31.67 MBit/s) is 70 mW at 70 MHz. This outperforms both area and power figures of previously presented non-programmable DVB-T/H solutions.
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paper_title: The sandbridge SB3011 SDR platform

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This paper describes the Sandbridge Sandblaster real-time software defined radio platform. Specifically we describe the SB301I system on a chip multiprocessor. We describe the software development system that enables real-time execution of communications and multimedia applications. We provide results for a number of interesting communications and multimedia systems including UMTS, DVB-H, WiMAX, WiFi, and NTSC video decoding. All results presented are from completely implemented systems from RF through baseband
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paper_title: A DSP architecture optimized for wireless baseband

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The high computation demands of next generation cellular and broadcast wireless require both higher efficiency and greater flexibility in baseband processing. This paper introduces a new DSP architecture optimized for baseband applications, especially applications with heavy workload of complex filtering, FFT and MIMO matrix operations such as LTE. The Tensilica ConnX Baseband Engine processor core implements a 3-issue VLIW, 8-way SIMD architecture. It can perform 16 multiply-add operations per cycle, and executes a full radix-4 FFT butterfly or 4 complex FIR filter taps per cycle. It directly implements vector division and reciprocal square root operations. At 400MHz, it provides almost 13GB per second of memory bandwidth. The rich programming environment, including vectorization of scalar C applications, allows easy deployment into cellular base-station, femto-cell and other software-agile radio applications, and into multi-standard broadcast receivers.
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paper_title: MULTI-RADIO SCHEDULING AND RESOURCE SHARING ON A SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO COMPUTING PLATFORM

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An apparatus is provided for selectively destroying dividing cells in living tissue formed of dividing cells and non-dividing cells. The dividing cells contain polarizable intracellular members and during late anaphase or telophase, the dividing cells are connected to one another by a cleavage furrow. The apparatus includes insulated electrodes to be coupled to a generator for subjecting the living tissue to electric field conditions sufficient to cause movement of the polarizable intracellular members toward the cleavage furrow in response to a non-homogeneous electric field being induced in the dividing cells. The movement of the polarizable intracellular intracellular members towards the cleavage furrow causes the breakdown thereof which adversely impacts the multiplication of the dividing cells. Preferably, an intervening member is disposed between each insulated electrode and the skin surface and each intervening member includes a conductive "floating" plate that protects against the effects on the patient from a breakdown in the insulation of the electrode.
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paper_title: Vector Processing as an Enabler for Software-Defined Radio in Handheld Devices

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A major challenge of software-defined radio (SDR) is to realize many giga operations per second of flexible baseband processing within a power budget of only a few hundred mW. A heterogeneous hardware architecture with the programmable vector processor EVP as key component can support WLAN, UMTS, and other standards. A detailed rationale for the EVP architecture, based on the analysis of a number of key algorithms, as well as implementation and benchmarking results are described.
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paper_title: Evaluating the Imagine stream architecture

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This paper describes an experimental evaluation of theprototype Imagine stream processor. Imagine [Imagine: Media processing with streams] is a stream processor that employs a two-level register hierarchy with9.7 Kbytes of local register file capacity and 128 Kbytesof stream register file (SRF) capacity to capture producer-consumerlocality in stream applications. Parallelism is exploitedusing an array of 48 floating-point arithmetic unitsorganized as eight SIMD clusters with a 6-wide VLIW percluster. We evaluate the performance of each aspect ofthe Imagine architecture using a set of synthetic micro-benchmarks,key media processing kernels, and full applications.These micro-benchmarks show that the prototypehardware can attain 7.96 GFLOPS or 25.4 GOPS of arithmeticperformance, 12.7 Gbytes/s of SRF bandwidth, 1.58Gbytes/s of memory system bandwidth, and accept up to2 million stream processor instructions per second from ahost processor.On a set of media processing kernels, Imagine sustainedan average of 43% of peak arithmetic performance. Anevaluation of full applications provides a breakdown ofwhere execution time is spent. Over full applications, Imagineachieves 39.4% of peak performance, of the remainderon average 36.4% of time is lost due to load imbalancebetween arithmetic units in the VLIW clusters and limitedinstruction-level parallelism within kernel inner loops,10.6% is due to kernel startup and shutdown overhead becauseof short stream lengths, 7.6% is due to memory stalls,and the rest is due to insufficient host processor bandwidth.Further analysis included in the paper presents the impactof host instruction bandwidth on application performance,particularly on smaller datasets. In summary, the experimentalmeasurements described in this paper demonstratethe high performance and efficiency of stream processing:operating at 200 MHz, Imagine sustains 4.81 GFLOPS onQR decomposition while dissipating 7.42 Watts.
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paper_title: From SODA to scotch: The evolution of a wireless baseband processor

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With the multitude of existing and upcoming wireless standards, it is becoming increasingly difficult for hardware-only baseband processing solutions to adapt to the rapidly changing wireless communication landscape. Software defined radio (SDR) promises to deliver a cost effective and flexible solution by implementing a wide variety of wireless protocols in software. In previous work, a fully programmable multicore architecture, SODA, was proposed that was able to meet the real-time requirements of 3G wireless protocols. SODA consists of one ARM control processor and four wide single instruction multiple data (SIMD) processing elements. Each processing element consists of a scalar and a wide 512-bit 32-lane SIMD datapath. A commercial prototype based on the SODA architecture, Ardbeg (named after a brand of Scotch whisky), has been developed. In this paper, we present the architectural evolution of going from a research design to a commercial prototype, including the goals, tradeoffs, and final design choices. Ardbegpsilas redesign process can be grouped into the following three major areas: optimizing the wide SIMD datapath, providing long instruction word (LIW) support for SIMD operations, and adding application-specific hardware accelerators. Because SODA was originally designed with 180 nm technology, the wide SIMD datapath is re-optimized in Ardbeg for 90 nm technology. This includes re-evaluating the most efficient SIMD width, designing a wider SIMD shuffle network, and implementing faster SIMD arithmetic units. Ardbeg also provides modest LIW support by allowing two SIMD operations to issue in the same cycle. This LIW execution supports SDR algorithmspsila most common parallel SIMD execution patterns with minimal hardware overhead. A viable commercial SDR solution must be competitive with existing ASIC solutions. Therefore, algorithm-specific hardware is added for performance bottleneck algorithms while still maintaining enough flexibility to support multiple wireless protocols. The combination of these architectural improvements allows Ardbeg to achieve 1.5-7x speedup over SODA across multiple wireless algorithms while consuming less power.
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paper_title: Synchronous Transfer Architecture (STA)

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This paper presents a novel micro-architecture for high-performance and low-power DSPs. The underlying Synchronous Transfer Architecture (STA) fills the gap between SIMD-DSPs and coarse-grain reconfigurable hardware. STA processors are modeled using a common machine description suitable for both compiler and core generator. The core generator is able to generate models in Lisa, System-C, and VHDL. A special emphasis is placed on the good synthesis of the generated VHDL model.
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paper_title: Synchronous Transfer Architecture (STA)

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This paper presents a novel micro-architecture for high-performance and low-power DSPs. The underlying Synchronous Transfer Architecture (STA) fills the gap between SIMD-DSPs and coarse-grain reconfigurable hardware. STA processors are modeled using a common machine description suitable for both compiler and core generator. The core generator is able to generate models in Lisa, System-C, and VHDL. A special emphasis is placed on the good synthesis of the generated VHDL model.
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paper_title: Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Computing for Power Aware Applications.

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Reconfigurable architectures find the middle ground between flexibility and efficiency by limiting their flexibility to a particular algorithm domain. A domain specific reconfigurable architecture is both efficient and flexible. Recore Systems provides semiconductor IP solutions for programmable systems-on-chip. The coarse-grained reconfigurable technology of Recore promises to solve the flexibility, performance, power consumption and cost requirements of semiconductor businesses.
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paper_title: High-speed tunable fractional-delay allpass filter structure

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By using a fractional delay (FD), a filter can perform various operations such as asynchronous sample rate conversion, synchronization of digital modems and sound synthesis of musical instruments. An IIR tunable FID filter can be designed using Thiran-based FD allpass filter structure. However, this IIR structure has the disadvantage of long critical path and large hardware overhead. In this paper, a modified Thiran-based FD allpass filter structure is proposed. Compared with the existing structure, the proposed structure requires shorter critical path, less hardware complexity and improved frequency characteristics.
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paper_title: Implementation of W-CDMA cell search on a runtime reconfigurable coarse-grain array

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This paper describes the implementation ofW-CDMA cell search on a reconfigurable architecture. The architecture is composed of a general-purpose processor core and a reconfigurable coarse-grain array accelerator. In this work we used a computational kernel mapped on the reconfigurable array to execute the W-CDMA target cell search. The acceleration produces a 26X total speed-up against a 4X overhead in area.
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paper_title: A VHDL model and Implementation of a Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Coprocessor for a RISC Core

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This paper presents a coarse-grain reconfigurable machine used as a coprocessor to speed up the execution of computationally demanding tasks, which would be too heavy for a generic RISC core stand alone. A VHDL model of the proposed architecture has been created for simulation and implementation. Some common algorithms for signal processing and multimedia applications have been mapped over our design, to benchmark it and compare the results against another existing architecture. Synthesis results indicate that the area occupation and the operating frequency of our design are reasonable, guaranteeing the physical feasibility of our approach. The amount of clock cycles required to perform the considered algorithms on the proposed architecture is far smaller than the one needed by a RISC core alone running the same software, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed solution.
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paper_title: A Reconfigurable Architecture for Wireless Communication Systems

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New wireless communication standards are introduced even before the previous standards are fully utilized. The increasing number of wireless communication standards creates new demands for their platform architectures. In addition to high data rate, low cost and low power consumption requirements for these systems, they need to be flexible enough to support multiple standards in a multimode radio system. In this paper we introduce a new version of MorphoSys, a reconfigurable architecture which is designed for Wireless communication systems. Experimental results show that for the wireless systems it provides a performance close to ASICs while is flexible enough to support changes in the current standards.
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paper_title: Application of a Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Architecture to OFDM Wireless Systems

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OFDM communication systems are widely used in today's wired and wireless system such as ADSL, IEEE 802.11a/g, and DVB-T/H. Current OFDM systems are built on custom ASIC which suffers from a tedious and costly design cycle. In this work we first present an overview of HERS, a heterogeneous reconfigurable system. HERS is a flexible and programmable software defined radio platform and is comprised of a set of heterogeneous reconfigurable engines connected using a high speed bus. Each reconfigurable engine is a specialized reconfigurable processor designed for a class of algorithms and is highly optimized for power and performance. Next, we report on implementation of the most computationally intensive constituent algorithms of IEEE 802.11a/g and DVB-T/H standards.
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paper_title: A coarse-grained array based baseband processor for 100Mbps+ software defined radio

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The software-defined radio (SDR) concept aims to enabling cost-effective multi-mode baseband solutions for wireless terminals. However, the growing complexity of new communication standards applying, e.g., multi-antenna transmission techniques, together with the reduced energy budget, is challenging SDR architectures. Coarse-grained array (CGA) processors are strong candidates to undertake both high performance and low power. The design of a candidate hybrid CGA-SEVID processor for an SDR baseband platform is presented. The processor, designed in TSMC 90 G process according to a dual-VT standard-cells flow, achieves a clock frequency of 400 MHz in worst case conditions and consumes maximally 310 mW active and 25 mW leakage power (typical conditions) when delivering up to 25,6 GOPS (16-bit). The mapping of a 20 MHz 2times2 MIMO-OFDM transmit and receive baseband functionality is detailed as an application case study, achieving 100 Mbps+ throughput with an average consumption of 220 mW.
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paper_title: Synchronous Transfer Architecture (STA)

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This paper presents a novel micro-architecture for high-performance and low-power DSPs. The underlying Synchronous Transfer Architecture (STA) fills the gap between SIMD-DSPs and coarse-grain reconfigurable hardware. STA processors are modeled using a common machine description suitable for both compiler and core generator. The core generator is able to generate models in Lisa, System-C, and VHDL. A special emphasis is placed on the good synthesis of the generated VHDL model.
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Title: State of the Art Baseband DSP Platforms for Software Defined Radio: A Survey

Section 1: Introduction
Description 1: Introduce the topic of Software Defined Radio (SDR) and its significance in communication systems. Discuss the motivations, challenges, and the scope of the survey.

Section 2: Digital baseband technologies
Description 2: Provide an overview of the digital baseband technologies used in SDR, focusing on the significance of multi-carrier techniques and various algorithms used in the baseband processing chain.

Section 3: Channel coding
Description 3: Discuss the role of error correcting codes in channel coding for SDR, and provide insights into different algorithms such as Convolutional Codes, Turbo Codes, and LDPC.

Section 4: Modulation
Description 4: Explain the process of modulation in OFDM systems and the computational challenges involved, with a focus on FFT/IFFT algorithms and hardware solutions.

Section 5: Synchronization
Description 5: Detail the importance of synchronization in OFDM systems and the techniques used to achieve carrier frequency, carrier phase, sampling clock frequency, and symbol timing synchronization.

Section 6: Channel estimation and equalization
Description 6: Describe the methods used for channel estimation and equalization in OFDM systems, including various pilot symbol patterns and estimators.

Section 7: Overview of existing SDR solutions
Description 7: Provide an overview of various SDR solutions proposed by industry and academia, categorizing them based on different architectural approaches.

Section 8: Processor centered architectures
Description 8: Discuss the SDR platforms centered around processor architectures, including subsections detailing specific solutions like LeoCore, Sandblaster, ConnX BBE, EVP by NXP, and others.

Section 9: DSP-centered SDR solutions
Description 9: Offer a detailed look into SDR solutions based on DSPs, highlighting their capabilities and benefits.

Section 10: Many-Core SDR Platforms
Description 10: Explore many-core SDR platforms and their architectural advantages, discussing specific examples like SODA, ARM Ardbeg, Tomahawk MPSoC, MuSIC by Infineon, and more.

Section 11: BUTTER and CREMA
Description 11: Describe two specific reconfigurable platforms, BUTTER and CREMA, their architectural details, and their application in SDR.

Section 12: HERS
Description 12: Outline the Heterogeneous Reconfigurable System (HERS) and its components designed to support SDR.

Section 13: ADRES by IMEC
Description 13: Discuss the hybrid CGA-SIMD SDR processor designed by IMEC, its features, and performance.

Section 14: Discussion
Description 14: Summarize the state of the art in SDR solutions, comparing various approaches based on programmability, flexibility, and power consumption. Discuss future trends and challenges.

Section 15: Conclusion
Description 15: Provide a concluding overview of the survey, highlighting key points and predicting future directions for SDR platforms and their development.