Configurable baseband digital transceiver for Gbps wireless 60 GHz communications

Author

Diamantopoulos, D. ; Galiatsatos, P. ; Karachalios, A. ; Lentaris, G. ; Reisis, D. ; Soudris, D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece

fYear

2011

fDate

11-14 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

192

Lastpage

195

Abstract

The evolution of 60 GHz wireless networks using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technique imposed requirements of increased processing in the baseband implementations. The current paper focuses on the design of a pipelined architecture realizing the baseband functions. The design bases on using parallel paths to achieve a throughput of 1.6 Gbps. The number of paths is configured at compile time to be 4, 8 or 16, for achieving maximal throughput by either using cutting edge technology FPGA platforms or target implementations with low cost devices. FPGA implementations validate the results.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; field programmable gate arrays; radio transceivers; wireless channels; FPGA; Gbps wireless communications; baseband functions; bit rate 1.6 Gbit/s; configurable baseband digital transceiver; cutting edge technology; frequency 60 GHz; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; parallel paths; pipelined architecture; wireless networks; Baseband; Computer architecture; Estimation; OFDM; Receivers; Synchronization; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), 2011 18th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beirut

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1845-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-1844-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2011.6122246

Filename

6122246