Vector Processing as an Enabler for Software-Defined Radio in Handheld Devices

A major challenge of software-defined radio (SDR) is to realize many giga operations per second of flexible baseband processing within a power budget of only a few hundred mW. A heterogeneous hardware architecture with the programmable vector processor EVP as key component can support WLAN, UMTS, and other standards. A detailed rationale for the EVP architecture, based on the analysis of a number of key algorithms, as well as implementation and benchmarking results are described.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Philips Research, Technical University Eindhoven, Professor Holstlaan 4, Eindhoven, 5656 AA, The Netherlands

   Kees van Berkel & Patrick P. E. Meuwissen

2. Philips Semiconductors, BL Cellular Systems, Nuernberg, 90443, Germany

   Frank Heinle

3. Philips Semiconductors, DSP Innovation Center, Waalre, The Netherlands

   Kees Moerman

4. Philips Semiconductors, BL Connectivity, Dresden, 01099, Germany

   Matthias Weiss

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Kees van Berkel.

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