From SODA to scotch: The evolution of a wireless baseband processor

Proceedings of the Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture, MICRO

Volumn , Issue 2008 PROCEEDINGS, 2008, Pages 152-163

  Woh, Mark ^a   Lin, Yuan ^a   Seo, Sangwon ^a   Mahlke, Scott ^a   Mudge, Trevor ^a   Chakrabarti, Chaitali ^b   Bruce, Richard ^c   Kershaw, Danny ^c   Reid, Alastair ^c   Wilder, Mladen ^c   Flautner, Krisztian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

^c ARM LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3G WIRELESS; 90 NM TECHNOLOGY; APPLICATION-SPECIFIC HARDWARE; ARCHITECTURAL EVOLUTION; ARCHITECTURAL IMPROVEMENTS; ARITHMETIC UNIT; BASE-BAND PROCESSING; BASEBAND PROCESSORS; CONTROL PROCESSORS; COST EFFECTIVE; DATA PATHS; HARDWARE OVERHEADS; MULTICORE ARCHITECTURES; PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECKS; PROCESSING ELEMENTS; REAL TIME REQUIREMENT; RESEARCH DESIGNS; SIMD OPERATIONS; SINGLE INSTRUCTION MULTIPLE DATA; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS; SPECIFIC HARDWARE; WIRELESS ALGORITHMS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS PROTOCOL; WIRELESS STANDARDS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ARCHITECTURE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RADIO; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 66749136924     PISSN: 10724451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MICRO.2008.4771787     Document Type: Conference Paper

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