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Flexible front-end processing for software defined radio applications using application specific instruction-set processors

  • C. Schmidt-Knorreck
  • , R. Pacalet
  • , A. Minwegen
  • , U. Deidersen
  • , T. Kempf
  • , R. Knopp
  • , G. Ascheid
  • Eurecom
  • RWTH Aachen University

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Abstract

High computational demands of today's wireless communication standards require the design of highly flexible Software Defined Radio (SDR) platforms like the OpenAirInter-face ExpressMIMO platform. A DSP engine of major importance is the Front-End Processor (FEP) which deals with the different air-interface operations at the transceiver side. In this paper we propose an Application Specific Instruction-Set Processor (ASIP) architecture for front-end processing and compare it to a programmable DSP engine as well as to other ASIP solutions. For design comparison we mainly focus on architectural differences and the runtime performance in terms of processing time. The synthesis results are provided for different target technologies.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDASIP 2012 - Proceedings of the 2012 Conference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing
Pages97-104
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2012
Event6th Annual Conference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing, DASIP 2012 - Karlsruhe, Germany
Duration: 23 Oct 201225 Oct 2012

Publication series

NameConference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing, DASIP
ISSN (Print)2164-9766

Conference

Conference6th Annual Conference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing, DASIP 2012
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityKarlsruhe
Period23/10/1225/10/12

Keywords

  • ASIP
  • SDR
  • flexible HW platform

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