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Architectures for Wideband CDMA Software Radios

by Vandana Prabhu(vanp@eecs) & Rhett Davis(wrdavis@eecs)
 



Abstract

Recent studies have shown that great increases  in data rates in wireless communication systems are possible through the use of multi-user detection schemes for wideband CDMA systems.  Other studies have  concluded that  programmability of the wireless hardware is needed  to keep up with changing wireless standards. These are the so-called "software radios".  The question is, can we do both?  Is it feasible to implement a multi-user detection, wideband CDMA receiver using general purpose hardware? We propose to implement a major part of the system, the "pilot correlator", on four different processor architectures: Pleiades, Vector, VLIW, and general purpose.  The success of each implementation will be judged by three criteria which relate to its effectiveness in a portable wireless device: performance(meeting timing criterion in a real-time system), complexity/costs and  energy.



Project Proposal

Final Project Presentation  (ppt)
 

Final Report

Appendix A.
  1. Critical Path Simulation
    main1.c
    pilot1.S
    tick1.1 (cpuCyclesPerMemCycle = 1)
    tick1.2 (cpuCyclesPerMemCycle = 2)
  2. Main Loop
    main2.c
    pilot2.S
    tick2 (cpuCyclesPerMemCycle = 1)
  3. Zmf Calculation Loop
    main2.c
    pilot3.S
    tick3 (cpuCyclesPerMemCycle = 1)