DocumentCode
1475071
Title
FPGA in the software radio
Author
Cummings, Mark ; Haruyama, Shinichiro
Author_Institution
Cadence Wireless Design Services, USA
Volume
37
Issue
2
fYear
1999
fDate
2/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
108
Lastpage
112
Abstract
As new radio standards are deployed without substantially supplanting existing ones, the need for multimode multiband handsets and infrastructure increases. This article describes how emerging FPGA technology´s unique combination of size and power efficiency plus field programmability offers a transition of FPCAs from ASIC prototyping to embedded products. Software-defined receiver examples suggest an enlarged role for FPGAs in pragmatic paths toward the productization of software radio technology
Keywords
application specific integrated circuits; digital radio; field programmable gate arrays; land mobile radio; radio receivers; telecommunication standards; ASIC prototyping; FPGA; embedded products; field programmability; infrastructure; multimode multiband handsets; power efficiency; productization; radio standards; software radio; software-defined receiver; Application specific integrated circuits; Design optimization; Digital signal processing; Energy consumption; Field programmable gate arrays; Personal communication networks; Silicon; Software prototyping; Software radio; Telephone sets;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Communications Magazine, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0163-6804
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/35.747258
Filename
747258
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