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This paper presents a 2×14bit cartesian Direct Digital RF Modulator (DDRM) in 28nm CMOS. Both AM and PM calibration circuits are introduced to relax matching requirements of the DDRM units which results in a compact and efficient implementation. The DDRM features a memoryless current source based unit cell to avoid complex dynamic digital predistortion (DPD) algorithms. All the units can be tuned...
This paper discusses a MATLAB to C compiler exploiting custom instructions such as instructions for SIMD processing and instructions for complex arithmetic present in Application Specific Instruction Set Processors (ASIPs). The compiler generates ANSI C code in which the processor's special instructions are represented via specialized intrinsic functions. By doing this the generated code can be used...
An important challenge in the domain of vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) is the scalability of data dissemination. Under dense traffic conditions, the large number of communicating vehicles can easily result in a congested wireless channel. In that situation, delays and packet losses increase to a level where the VANET cannot be applied for road safety applications anymore. This...
Emerging high throughput wireless communication standards, such as LTE/LTE-A and IEEE 802.11ac, impose exciting challenges on SDR baseband implementations. Our work explores the feasibility of SDR baseband for the most demanding-modes in those emerging high throughput standards. On a customized C programmable SDR baseband processor (with compiler support), we have accomplished realtime inner receiver...
The Chinese Digital Television Terrestrial Broadcasting System has a complex PHY layer definition with many different modes including two different block transmission schemes (OFDM and SC) and three different known symbol padding cyclic extensions, some of which with phase rotation between blocks that break the cyclicity. The block sizes with or without cyclic extension are “non power of two” numbers...
The rapidly evolving and diversifying wireless landscape demands highly flexible wireless chipsets. Due to the ultimate programmability, SDR solutions are becoming more and more attractive. However, the programmability overhead is still a concern for the silicon area cost of SDR solutions. In this work, we prove that, with algorithm and architecture co- design, SDR solutions can be very competitive...
We address the problem of channel tracking in fast vehicular environments for OFDM systems. In modern vehicular OFDM systems such as the IEEE802.11p, the preamble-based channel estimation is not sufficient to guarantee a good equalization until the end of the burst. Indeed, at urban and highway vehicular speeds, a conventional OFDM receiver generates a large number of errors after only a few OFDM...
Two quite different tools are normally used in the research of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET). Simulators are practical and cost-efficient, but are not entirely accurate representations of the real life situation. Field operational tests (FOT) provide exactly the opposite characteristics. A wireless testbed is situated somewhere in between, but has not yet been applied in VANET research. In this...
With the soaring development cost of deep sub-micron silicon and the fast-growing diversity in wireless communications, software defined baseband becomes more and more important for handheld devices. However, most software defined receivers reported in previous literatures are still far away from fulfilling the requirement of emerging wireless standards such as the LTE-Advanced. The category-E User...
This paper presents a memory organization for SDR inner modem baseband processors that focus on exploiting ILP. This memory organization uses power-efficient, single-ported, interleaved scratch-pad memory banks to provide enough bandwidth to a high-ILP processors. A system of queues in the memory interface is used to resolve bank conflicts among the single-ported banks, and to spread long bursts of...
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