A green software-defined communication processor for dynamic spectrum access

Author

Liang, Ching-Kai ; Chen, Kwang-Cheng

Author_Institution

Grad. Inst. of Commun. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2010

Firstpage

774

Lastpage

779

Abstract

Dynamic spectrum access (DSA) supporting opportunistic transmission without extra spectrum bandwidth is attractive for future wireless communication. To facilitate such DSA system, a power-efficient (green) communication processor is needed to support extremely high speed operation on a power-limited mobile device. Traditional general-purpose and digital signal processors are unable to simultaneously satisfy the processing speed and power efficiency for DSA systems. By exploiting critical parallelism and data exchange patterns based on communication algorithms inside a green processor, we successfully develop green SDR based communications processor for DSA that can be reconfigured to multiple system operation. We verify this novel architecture in TSMC 0.13μm CMOS process and demonstrate advantages simultaneously in performance and power efficiency.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; digital signal processing chips; radio access networks; radio spectrum management; software radio; CMOS process; DSA system; TSMC; data exchange pattern; digital signal processor; dynamic spectrum access; general purpose processor; green SDR based communication processor; green software defined communication processor; opportunistic transmission; power efficiency; power efficient communication processor; power limited mobile device; spectrum bandwidth; wireless communication algorithm; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer architecture; Decoding; Parallel processing; Registers; Signal processing algorithms; Synchronization; Communication processor; Dynamic Spectrum Access; Reconfigurable architecture; Software Defined Radio; algorithm analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2010 IEEE 21st International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Instanbul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8017-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2010.5671956

Filename

5671956