Vector processing as an enabler for software-defined radio in handheld devices

  • Authors:
  • Kees van Berkel;Frank Heinle;Patrick P. E. Meuwissen;Kees Moerman;Matthias Weiss

  • Affiliations:
  • Philips Research, Technical University Eindhoven, AA Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Philips Semiconductors, BL Cellular Systems, Nuernberg, Germany;Philips Research, Technical University Eindhoven, AA Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Philips Semiconductors, DSP Innovation Center, Waalre, The Netherlands;Philips Semiconductors, BL Connectivity, Dresden, Germany

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

A major challenge of software-defined radio (SDR) is to realize many giga operations per second of flexible baseband processing within a power budget of only a few hundred mW. A heterogeneous hardware architecture with the programmable vector processor EVP as key component can support WLAN, UMTS, and other standards. A detailed rationale for the EVP architecture, based on the analysis of a number of key algorithms, as well as implementation and benchmarking results are described.