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SODA: A Low-Power Architecture for Software Radio

Overview The physical layer of most wireless protocols is traditionally implemented in custom hardware to satisfy the heavy computational requirements while keeping power consumption to a minimum. These implementations are time consuming to design and difficult to verify. A programmable hardware platform capable of supporting software implementations of the physical layer, or software defined radio, has a number of advantages. These include support for multiple protocols, faster time-to-market, higher chip volumes, and support for late implementation changes. The challenge is to achieve this without sacrificing power. This paper presents a design study for a fully programmable architecture, Signal-processing On-Demand Architecture (SODA) that supports software defined radio - a high-end signal processing application.

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Publisher	Arizona State University	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2007	Downloads	1
Format	White Papers
Topics	Mobile - Wireless Communications, Wireless

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