Automatic synthesis of cost effective FFT/FFT cores for VLSI OFDM systems

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E91-C, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 487-496

  L'insalata, Nicola E ^a,b   Saponara, Sergio ^a   Fanucci, Luca ^a   Terreni, Pierangelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Microelectronic Systems Division ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Configurable macrocell; FFT OFDM communication system; IP reuse

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCASTING (DVB); ENGINES; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); VLSI CIRCUITS;

AUTOMATIC SYNTHESIS; BLOCK FLOATING POINT; CLOSED LOOP OPTIMIZATION; COMMUNICATIONS STANDARD; IP REUSE; MACRO CELLS; SEAMLESS INTEGRATION; SYSTEM-LEVEL PERFORMANCE;

FIXED POINT ARITHMETIC;

EID: 64849085832     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e91-c.4.487     Document Type: Article

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