• DocumentCode
    2580610
  • Title

    Implementation of W-CDMA cell search on a runtime reconfigurable coarse-grain array

  • Author

    Garzia, Fabio ; Brunelli, Claudio ; Giliberto, Carmelo ; Nurmi, Jari

  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    18-23 May 2009
  • Firstpage
    411
  • Lastpage
    415
  • Abstract
    This paper describes the implementation of W-CDMA cell search on a reconfigurable architecture. The architecture is composed of a general-purpose processor core and a reconfigurable coarse-grain array accelerator. In this work we used a computational kernel mapped on the reconfigurable array to execute the W-CDMA target cell search. The acceleration produces a 26times total speed-up against a 4times overhead in area.
  • Keywords
    code division multiple access; protocols; software radio; W-CDMA; cell search; computational kernel; radio protocols; reconfigurable coarse-grain array; software defined radio; Application software; Computer architecture; Dairy products; Kernel; Multiaccess communication; Reconfigurable architectures; Reduced instruction set computing; Runtime; Software radio; Wireless LAN; Radio Protocols; Reconfigurable Architecture; Software Defined Radio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    EUROCON 2009, EUROCON '09. IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    St.-Petersburg
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3860-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3861-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EURCON.2009.5167664
  • Filename
    5167664