Title :
FPGA in the software radio
Author :
Cummings, Mark ; Haruyama, Shinichiro
Author_Institution :
Cadence Wireless Design Services, USA
fDate :
2/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
As new radio standards are deployed without substantially supplanting existing ones, the need for multimode multiband handsets and infrastructure increases. This article describes how emerging FPGA technology´s unique combination of size and power efficiency plus field programmability offers a transition of FPCAs from ASIC prototyping to embedded products. Software-defined receiver examples suggest an enlarged role for FPGAs in pragmatic paths toward the productization of software radio technology
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; digital radio; field programmable gate arrays; land mobile radio; radio receivers; telecommunication standards; ASIC prototyping; FPGA; embedded products; field programmability; infrastructure; multimode multiband handsets; power efficiency; productization; radio standards; software radio; software-defined receiver; Application specific integrated circuits; Design optimization; Digital signal processing; Energy consumption; Field programmable gate arrays; Personal communication networks; Silicon; Software prototyping; Software radio; Telephone sets;
Journal_Title :
Communications Magazine, IEEE
