Towards software defined radios using coarse-grained reconfigurable hardware

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-12

  Rauwerda, Gerard K ^a,b   Heysters, Paul M ^a   Smit, Gerard J M ^b  

^a Recore Systems BV   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous reconfigurable hardware; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); Software defined radio (SDR); System on chip (SoC); Turbo decoding; Viterbi; Wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA)

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CODING; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

HETEROGENEOUS RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO (SDR); SYSTEM ON CHIP (SOC); WIDEBAND CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (WCDMA);

RADIO RECEIVERS;

EID: 37249082527     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2007.912075     Document Type: Article

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