Computing Platforms for Software-Defined Radio

✍ Scribed by Waqar Hussain, Jari Nurmi, Jouni Isoaho, Fabio Garzia

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book addresses Software-Defined Radio (SDR) baseband processing from the computer architecture point of view, providing a detailed exploration of different computing platforms by classifying different approaches, highlighting the common features related to SDR requirements and by showing pros and cons of the proposed solutions.  It covers architectures exploiting parallelism by extending single-processor environment (such as VLIW, SIMD, TTA approaches), multi-core platforms distributing the computation to either a homogeneous array or a set of specialized heterogeneous processors, and architectures exploiting fine-grained, coarse-grained, or hybrid reconfigurability.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
The Evolution of Software-Defined Radio: An Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Design Transformation from a Single-Core to a Multi-Core Architecture Targeting Massively Parallel Signal Processing Algorithms....Pages 7-28
The CoreVA-MPSoC: A Multiprocessor Platform for Software-Defined Radio....Pages 29-59
Design and Implementation of IEEE 802.11a/g Receiver Blocks on a Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Array....Pages 61-89
Reconfigurable Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip....Pages 91-105
Ninesilica: A Homogeneous MPSoC Approach for SDR Platforms....Pages 107-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Application of the Scalable Communications Core as an SDR Baseband....Pages 123-145
HW/SW Co-design Toolset for Customization of Exposed Datapath Processors....Pages 147-164
FPGA-Based Cognitive Radio Platform with Reconfigurable Front-End and Antenna....Pages 165-187
Synchronization in NC-OFDM-Based Cognitive Radio Platforms....Pages 189-207
Towards Adaptive Cryptography and Security with Software Defined Platforms....Pages 209-236
The Future of Software-Defined Radio: Recommendations....Pages 237-238
Back Matter....Pages 239-240