• DocumentCode
    1855075
  • Title

    A low-power W-CDMA demodulator using specially-designed micro-DSPs

  • Author

    Igura, Hiroyuki ; Hirata, Masaru ; Yamada, Junya ; Yamashina, Masakazu ; Ono, Shigeru

  • Author_Institution
    NEC Corp., Kanagawa, Japan
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    2002
  • Firstpage
    397
  • Lastpage
    400
  • Abstract
    This paper presents the architecture of a demodulator developed for W-CDMA digital baseband processing. The demodulator features micro-DSPs specially designed for it and a variety of power-lowering and area-saving techniques such as detailed clock control, reduction of unnecessary signal transition and data compression. These features give the demodulator much lower power consumption and smaller size than a conventional one.
  • Keywords
    3G mobile communication; code division multiple access; data compression; demodulators; digital signal processing chips; low-power electronics; W-CDMA demodulator; area-saving techniques; data compression; digital baseband processing; low-power electronics; micro-DSPs; power-lowering techniques; signal transition; Baseband; Demodulation; Energy consumption; Frequency; Large scale integration; Mobile handsets; Multiaccess communication; Radio communication; Signal processing; Timing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the IEEE 2002
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7250-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CICC.2002.1012855
  • Filename
    1012855