Implementation of a tracking channel of a GPS receiver on a reconfigurable machine

The goal of this work is to implement a tracking channel of a GPS receiver on a reconfigurable accelerator developed in our group. The reconfigurable device is a coarse-grain array of 8x8 processing-elements. On the other hand the tracking channel is mostly based on line-grain blocks. Thus the implementation presented an interesting design challenge. This paper will describe the design solutions adopted to solve those challenges, increasing the interconnection capabilities of the machine.