Rapid prototyping and VLSI exploration for 3g/4G MIMO wireless systems using integrated catapult-c methodology

Author

Guo, Yuanbin ; McCain, Dennis

Author_Institution

Nokia Res. Center, Irving, TX

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

3-6 April 2006

Firstpage

958

Lastpage

963

Abstract

In this paper, we present an un-timed Catapult C/C++ based methodology that integrates key technologies for high-level VLSI modelling of 3G/4G wireless systems to enable extensive time/area tradeoff study. Case study is given to explore the VLSI design space for various computational intensive algorithms in both MIMO-CDMA and MIMO-OFDM systems. The prototyping experience demonstrates significantly improved architecture efficiency and productivity

Keywords

3G mobile communication; 4G mobile communication; C++ language; OFDM modulation; VLSI; code division multiple access; telecommunication computing; 3G wireless systems; 4G MIMO wireless systems; C++; CDMA; OFDM systems; VLSI exploration; integrated Catapult-C methodology; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer architecture; Hardware design languages; MIMO; Parallel processing; Pipeline processing; Prototypes; Signal processing algorithms; Space technology; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2006. WCNC 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0269-7

Electronic_ISBN

1525-3511

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2006.1683599

Filename

1683599