Energy profiling of FPGA-based PHY-layer building blocks encountered in modern wireless communication systems

Author

Bartzoudis, Nikolaos ; Font-Bach, Oriol ; Payaro, Miquel ; Pascual-Iserte, Antonio ; Rubio, Jesus ; Garcia Fernandez, Juan Jose ; Garcia Armada, Ana

Author_Institution

Centre Tecnol. de Telecomun. de Catalunya (CTTC), Castelldefels, Spain

fYear

2014

fDate

22-25 June 2014

Firstpage

337

Lastpage

340

Abstract

Characterizing the energy cost of different physical (PHY) layer building blocks is becoming increasingly important in modern cellular-based communications, considering the cross sector requirements for performance enhancements and energy savings. This paper presents energy profiling metrics of different PHY-layer FPGA implementations encountered in modern wireless communication systems. The results give an insight of the distribution of the consumed energy in different baseband building blocks or configurations before and after applying power optimizations in the FPGA design and implementation.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; optimisation; radio networks; telecommunication network management; FPGA based PHY layer building blocks; PHY layer; cellular based communications; cross sector requirements; energy profiling; energy profiling metrics; energy savings; power optimizations; wireless communication systems; Field programmable gate arrays; Measurement; Optimization; Power demand; Receivers; Standards; WiMAX;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM), 2014 IEEE 8th

Conference_Location

A Coruna

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SAM.2014.6882410

Filename

6882410