Applying graphics processor acceleration in a software defined radio prototyping environment

William Plishker; George F. Zaki; Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya; Charles Clancy; John Kuykendall

doi:10.1109/RSP.2011.5929977

Applying graphics processor acceleration in a software defined radio prototyping environment

William Plishker, George F. Zaki, Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, Charles Clancy, John Kuykendall

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Abstract

With higher bandwidth requirements and more complex protocols, software defined radio (SDR) has ever growing computational demands. SDR applications have different levels of parallelism that can be exploited on multicore platforms, but design and programming difficulties have inhibited the adoption of specialized multicore platforms like graphics processors (GPUs). In this work we propose a new design flow that augments a popular existing SDR development environment (GNU Radio), with a dataflow foundation and a stand-alone GPU accelerated library. The approach gives an SDR developer the ability to prototype a GPU accelerated application and explore its design space fast and effectively. We demonstrate this design flow on a standard SDR benchmark and show that deciding how to utilize a GPU can be non-trivial for even relatively simple applications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2011 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Rapid System Prototyping: Shortening the Path from Specification to Prototype, RSP-2011
Pages	67-73
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/RSP.2011.5929977
Publication status	Published - 2011
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	2011 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Rapid System Prototyping: Shortening the Path from Specification to Prototype, RSP-2011 - Karlsruhe, Germany Duration: 24 May 2011 → 27 May 2011

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Conference	2011 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Rapid System Prototyping: Shortening the Path from Specification to Prototype, RSP-2011
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Karlsruhe
Period	24/05/11 → 27/05/11

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Plishker, W., Zaki, G. F., Bhattacharyya, S. S., Clancy, C., & Kuykendall, J. (2011). Applying graphics processor acceleration in a software defined radio prototyping environment. In Proceedings of the 2011 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Rapid System Prototyping: Shortening the Path from Specification to Prototype, RSP-2011 (pp. 67-73). Article 5929977 https://doi.org/10.1109/RSP.2011.5929977

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Plishker, W, Zaki, GF, Bhattacharyya, SS, Clancy, C & Kuykendall, J 2011, Applying graphics processor acceleration in a software defined radio prototyping environment. in Proceedings of the 2011 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Rapid System Prototyping: Shortening the Path from Specification to Prototype, RSP-2011., 5929977, pp. 67-73, 2011 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Rapid System Prototyping: Shortening the Path from Specification to Prototype, RSP-2011, Karlsruhe, Germany, 24/05/11. https://doi.org/10.1109/RSP.2011.5929977

Applying graphics processor acceleration in a software defined radio prototyping environment. / Plishker, William; Zaki, George F.; Bhattacharyya, Shuvra S. et al.
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