Towards a very high bandwidth wireless battery powered device

Author

Glossner, John ; Routenberg, David ; Hokenek, Erdem ; Moudgill, Mayan ; Schulte, Michael J. ; Balzola, Pablo I. ; Vassiliadis, Stamatis

Author_Institution

Sandbridge Technol., Brewster, NY, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

37012

Firstpage

3

Lastpage

9

Abstract

We discuss the hardware and software challenges in building a 2 Mbit per second wireless battery powered communications device. Of primary importance is power dissipation. To achieve aggressive power targets, a host of new techniques are required at all levels of the design hierarchy. Techniques for parallelizing saturating arithmetic will become important because of the software optimizations they enable. Highly configurable programmable structures will enable multiprotocol SOC solutions. To program complex SOCs, new compiler techniques will be required. Hardware implementations will need to be intimately aware of these software techniques. In particular both signal processing code written in C and control code written in Java will drive new compilation techniques to enable broadband 3G wireless systems

Keywords

Java; VLSI; application specific integrated circuits; land mobile radio; program compilers; telecommunication computing; 2 Mbit/s; Java; bandwidth; broadband 3G wireless systems; communications device; compilation techniques; compiler techniques; design hierarchy; multiprotocol SOC solutions; parallelizing saturating arithmetic; power dissipation; signal processing code; wireless battery powered device; Arithmetic; Bandwidth; Batteries; Buildings; Control systems; Hardware; Power dissipation; Program processors; Signal processing; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI, 2001. Proceedings. IEEE Computer Society Workshop on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1056-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWV.2001.923132

Filename

923132