Parametric Design for Reconfigurable Software-Defined Radio

  • Authors:
  • Tobias Becker;Wayne Luk;Peter Y. Cheung

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK;Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK

  • Venue:
  • ARC '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Run-time reconfigurable FPGAs are powerful platforms for realising software-defined radio systems. This paper introduces a parametric approach to designing such systems based on application and device parameters. We analyse the potential for reconfiguration in several software-defined radio components and demonstrate how the degree of parallelism in a reconfigurable module influences reconfiguration time and performance. In a case study with a reconfigurable FIR filter, our method increases the performance by a factor of 2.4.