DocumentCode
233884
Title
Hard versus Soft Software Defined Radio
Author
Meeus, Wim ; Aa, Tom Vander ; Raghavan, Praveen ; Stroobandt, Dirk
Author_Institution
Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium
fYear
2014
fDate
5-9 Jan. 2014
Firstpage
276
Lastpage
281
Abstract
A Software-Defined Radio (SDR) system, is a radio communication system where components that have been typically implemented in hardware are now implemented using software. In this paper we describe and compare two approaches to map this software onto a hardware platform. One runs the software on an ASIP, the other one uses High-Level Synthesis to design a (fixed-functionality) ASIC. We compare the two implementations for speed, power, area, design effort and flexibility. The ASIP has more flexibility, which also comes at a surprisingly low cost.
Keywords
application specific integrated circuits; software radio; ASIC; ASIP; SDR system; fixed functionality; hardware platform; high level synthesis; radio communication system; soft software defined radio; Application specific integrated circuits; Arrays; Clocks; Kernel; Payloads; Random access memory; Real-time systems; High-Level Synthesis; Software Defined Radio;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
VLSI Design and 2014 13th International Conference on Embedded Systems, 2014 27th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Mumbai
ISSN
1063-9667
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/VLSID.2014.54
Filename
6733143
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