A methodology for efficient high-level dataflow simulation of mixed-signal front-ends of digital telecom transceivers

  • Authors:
  • Gerd Vandersteen;Piet Wambacq;Yves Rolain;Petr Dobrovolný;Stéphane Donnay;Marc Engels;Ivo Bolsens

  • Affiliations:
  • IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium;IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium;Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dept. ELEC, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium;IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium;IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium;IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium;IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 37th Annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

The explosion of the telecommunications market requires miniaturization and cost-effective realization of the front-ends of transceivers for digital telecommunications. New architectures must therefore be simulated at high level. Current methodologies and corresponding tools suffer from common drawbacks, such as lower accuracy, slow simulation speed, etc. A new methodology has been developped for the efficient simulation, at the architectural level, of mixed-signal front-ends of digital telecom transceivers. The efficient execution is obtained using a multi-rate, multi-carrier signal representation together with a dataflow simulation scheme which switches dynamically towards the most efficient signal processing technique available. An implementation of this methodology shows both excellent runtimes and a high accuracy.