Energy-Efficient Communication Processors: Design and Implementation for Emerging Wireless Systems

✍ Scribed by Robert Fasthuber, Francky Catthoor, Praveen Raghavan, Frederik Naessens (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book describes a new design approach for energy-efficient, Domain-Specific Instruction set Processor (DSIP) architectures for the wireless baseband domain. The innovative techniques presented enable co-design of algorithms, architectures and technology, for efficient implementation of the most advanced technologies. To demonstrate the feasibility of the author’s design approach, case studies are included for crucial functionality of advanced wireless systems with increased computational performance, flexibility and reusability. Designers using this approach will benefit from reduced development/product costs and greater scalability to future process technology nodes.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Introduction and Motivation....Pages 1-23
Background and Related Work....Pages 25-68
The Proposed DSIP Architecture Template for the Wireless Communication Domain....Pages 69-135
Case Study 1: DSIP Architecture Instance for MIMO Detection....Pages 137-170
Case Study 2: DSIP Architecture Instances for FIR Filtering....Pages 171-218
Case Study 3: DSIP Architecture Instance for FFT Computation....Pages 219-250
Front-End Design Flow: Bridging the Algorithm-Architecture Gap....Pages 251-277
Conclusions and Future Work....Pages 279-285
Back Matter....Pages 287-289

✦ Subjects

Circuits and Systems; Processor Architectures; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation