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Reconfigurable Homogenous Multi-Core FFT Processor Architectures for Hybrid SISO/MIMO OFDM Wireless Communications
Chin-Long WEY Shin-Yo LIN Pei-Yun TSAI Ming-Der SHIEH
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Vol.E94-A
No.7
pp.1530-1539 Publication Date: 2011/07/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E94.A.1530 Print ISSN: 0916-8508 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: VLSI Design Technology and CAD Keyword: reconfigurable, fast Fourier transform (FFT), homogeneous, SISO/MIMO, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM),
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Summary:
Multi-core processors have been attracting a great deal of attention. In the domain of signal processing for communications, the current trends toward rapidly evolving standards and formats, and toward algorithms adaptive to dynamic factors in the environment, require programmable solutions that possess both algorithm flexibility and low implementation complexity. Reconfigurable architectures have demonstrated better tradeoffs between algorithm flexibility, implementation complexity, and energy efficiency. This paper presents a reconfigurable homogeneous memory-based FFT processor (MBFFT) architecture integrated in a single chip to provide hybrid SISO/MIMO OFDM wireless communication systems. For example, a reconfigurable MBFFT processor with eight processing elements (PEs) can be configured for one DVB-T/H with N=8192 and two 802.11n with N=128. The reconfigurable processors can perfectly fit the applications of Software Defined Radio (SDR) which requires more hardware flexibility.
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