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Computing Platforms for Software-Defined Radio

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  • Describes a computer engineering approach to SDR baseband processing hardware
  • Discusses implementation of numerous compute-intensive signal processing algorithms on single and multicore platforms
  • Enables deep understanding of optimization techniques related to power and energy consumption of multicore platforms using several basic and high-level performance indicators
  • Includes prototyping details of single and multicore platforms on ASICs and FPGAs
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. The Evolution of Software-Defined Radio: An Introduction

    • Waqar Hussain, Jouni Isoaho, Jari Nurmi
    Pages 1-4
  3. Architectures, Designs and Implementations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
    2. The CoreVA-MPSoC: A Multiprocessor Platform for Software-Defined Radio

      • Gregor Sievers, Boris Hübener, Johannes Ax, Martin Flasskamp, Wayne Kelly, Thorsten Jungeblut et al.
      Pages 29-59
    3. Design and Implementation of IEEE 802.11a/g Receiver Blocks on a Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Array

      • Sajjad Nouri, Waqar Hussain, Diana Göhringer, Jari Nurmi
      Pages 61-89
    4. Reconfigurable Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip

      • Diana Goehringer
      Pages 91-105
    5. Ninesilica: A Homogeneous MPSoC Approach for SDR Platforms

      • Roberto Airoldi, Fabio Garzia, Tapani Ahonen, Jari Nurmi
      Pages 107-119
  4. Software-Based Radio Cognition and Implementation Tools

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
    2. Application of the Scalable Communications Core as an SDR Baseband

      • Anthony Chun, Jeffrey D. Hoffman
      Pages 123-145
    3. HW/SW Co-design Toolset for Customization of Exposed Datapath Processors

      • Pekka Jääskeläinen, Timo Viitanen, Jarmo Takala, Heikki Berg
      Pages 147-164
    4. FPGA-Based Cognitive Radio Platform with Reconfigurable Front-End and Antenna

      • Aitor Arriola, Pedro Manuel Rodríguez, Raúl Torrego, Félix Casado, Zaloa Fernández, Mikel Mendicute et al.
      Pages 165-187
    5. Synchronization in NC-OFDM-Based Cognitive Radio Platforms

      • Farid Shamani, Tapani Ahonen, Jari Nurmi
      Pages 189-207
    6. Towards Adaptive Cryptography and Security with Software Defined Platforms

      • Antti Hakkala, Jouni Isoaho, Seppo Virtanen
      Pages 209-236
    7. The Future of Software-Defined Radio: Recommendations

      • Waqar Hussain, Jouni Isoaho, Jari Nurmi
      Pages 237-238
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 239-240

About this book

This book addresses Software-Defined Radio (SDR) baseband processing from the computer architecture point of view, providing a detailed exploration of different computing platforms by classifying different approaches, highlighting the common features related to SDR requirements and by showing pros and cons of the proposed solutions.  It covers architectures exploiting parallelism by extending single-processor environment (such as VLIW, SIMD, TTA approaches), multi-core platforms distributing the computation to either a homogeneous array or a set of specialized heterogeneous processors, and architectures exploiting fine-grained, coarse-grained, or hybrid reconfigurability. 

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

    Waqar Hussain, Jari Nurmi

  • Communication Systems laboratory, Department of Information Technology, University of Turku , Turku, Finland

    Jouni Isoaho

  • Fraunhofer IIS , Nürnberg, Germany

    Fabio Garzia

About the editors

Dr. Waqar Hussain is currently a Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Finland. He has been a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, IL, USA and also at the Chair for Integrated Signal Processing Systems, Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (RWTH), Aachen, Germany. His research interests include design and development of homogeneous and heterogeneous multicore and manycore systems that are specialized for application specific, reconfigurable and general purpose processing. He is actively working on Accelerator-Rich Architectures and issues related to Communication Infrastructures e.g., Network-on-Chip in an effort to exploit the underutilized part of the chip known as Dark Silicon.  Dr. Waqar Hussain has a doctorate degree in Electronics Engineering from Tampere University of Technology, Finland.  

 

Jari Nurmiis a professor at the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering in Tampere University of Technology (TUT). He has held various research, education and management positions at TUT and in the industry since 1987. He got a D.Sc.(Tech) degree from TUT in 1994. His current research interests include System-on-Chip integration, on-chip communication, embedded and application-specific processor architectures, and circuit and system design and implementation for digital communication, positioning and DSP. He is leading a group of about 15 researchers and research associates at TUT.  

 

Jouni Isoaho is a Professor in the Department of Applied Physics, Laboratory of Electronics and Information Technology at the University of Turku, Finland.  His research focuses on Low power system design for DSP and telecom systems, VLSI system design methodologies, and Innovative radio architectures and design methodologies. 

 

Fabio Garzia received his MSc degree in Electronics Engineer in March 2005 from the University of Bologna, Italy. After his graduation, he worked for a few months at ARCES Labs in Bologna, first as VLSI Layout Engineer then as Digital Designer. In 2006 he moved to Tampere, Finland, where he started his PhD studies. His PhD Thesis focused on the design of a coarse-grain reconfigurable accelerator at RTL level, the development of programming tools, design of SoC platforms based on this accelerator, implementation on FPGA and mapping of some applications on it. He received his Dr.Tech. (PhD) Degree in December 2009. From January 2010 to April 2011, he received a research grant for the development of a high-level compiler for the reconfigurable accelerator. In October 2011 he moved to Germany, where he joined the Navigation Group, Power-Efficient Systems Department at Fraunhofer IIS. His main activity regards the development of digital hardware and HW/SW interfaces for GNSS receivers targeting both ASIC and FPGA technologies. In May 2015 he received the title of Senior Engineer at Fraunhofer IIS. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Computing Platforms for Software-Defined Radio

  • Editors: Waqar Hussain, Jari Nurmi, Jouni Isoaho, Fabio Garzia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49679-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49678-8Published: 06 January 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84213-4Published: 13 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49679-5Published: 28 December 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 240

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Circuits and Systems, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Processor Architectures

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