Algorithm-Architecture Co-Optimization of Area-Efficient SDR Baseband for Highly Diversified Digital TV Standards

Author

Kobayashi, Kiyotaka ; Yomo, Hidekuni ; Li, Min ; Appeltans, Raf ; Cappelle, Hans ; Amin, Amir ; Couvreur, Aissa ; Hartmann, Matthias ; Bourdoux, André ; Raghavan, Praveen ; Dejonghe, Antoine ; Van der Perre, Liesbet

Author_Institution

Commun. Core Devices Dev. Center, Panasonic Corp., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

6-9 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The rapidly evolving and diversifying wireless landscape demands highly flexible wireless chipsets. Due to the ultimate programmability, SDR solutions are becoming more and more attractive. However, the programmability overhead is still a concern for the silicon area cost of SDR solutions. In this work, we prove that, with algorithm and architecture co- design, SDR solutions can be very competitive even when compared to highly optimized ASICs. Specifically, we show a baseband processor design that can support ISDB-T, DVB-T and ATSC, but the area cost is still comparable to the combination of ASICs which handle the three terrestrial digital TV standards respectively.

Keywords

application specific integrated circuits; digital video broadcasting; television receivers; ASIC; ATSC; DVB-T; ISDB-T; algorithm architecture cooptimization; application specific integrated circuits; area efficient SDR baseband; baseband processor; highly diversified digital TV standards; programmability overhead; terrestrial digital TV standards; wireless chipsets; Application specific integrated circuits; Baseband; Multiplexing; Program processors; Receivers; Signal processing algorithms; Standards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2012 IEEE 75th

Conference_Location

Yokohama

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0989-9

Electronic_ISBN

1550-2252

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2012.6240020

Filename

6240020