A Low Complexity and Low Power SoC Design Architecture for Adaptive MAI Suppression in CDMA Systems

• Authors: Yuanbin Guo;Joseph R. Cavallaro
• Venue: Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems
• Year: 2006

In this paper, we propose a reduced complexity and power efficient System-on-Chip (SoC) architecture for adaptive interference suppression in CDMA systems. The adaptive Parallel-Residue-Compensation architecture leads to significant performance gain over the conventional interference cancellation algorithms. The multi-code commonality is explored to avoid the direct Interference Cancellation (IC), which reduces the IC complexity from $\mathcal{O}(K^2N)$ to $\mathcal{O}(KN)$. The physical meaning of the complete versus weighted IC is applied to clip the weights above a certain threshold so as to reduce the VLSI circuit activity rate. Novel scalable SoC architectures based on simple combinational logic are proposed to eliminate dedicated multipliers with at least $10 \times$saving in hardware resource. A Catapult C High Level Synthesis methodology is apply to explore the VLSI design space extensively and achieve at least $4 \times$speedup. Multi-stage Convergence-Masking-Vector combined with clock gating is proposed to reduce the VLSI dynamic power consumption by up to $90 \%$