Trade-offs of Performance and Single Chip Implementation of Indoor Wireless Multi-Access Receivers

Ning Zhang, Ada Poon, David Tse and Robert Brodersen

The performance and computational complexity of five multi-access receivers are compared. A methodology is then presented for making area and power estimates of these algorithms for both software programmable DSP and dedicated direct mapped architectures . With this methodology and by using experimental data from previous designs, the feasibility of implementation of the multi-access receivers can be determined.