Ninesilica: A Homogeneous MPSoC Approach for SDR Platforms

Roberto Airoldi; Fabio Garzia; Tapani Ahonen; Jari Nurmi

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-49679-5_6

Ninesilica: A Homogeneous MPSoC Approach for SDR Platforms

Roberto Airoldi, Fabio Garzia, Tapani Ahonen, Jari Nurmi

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This chapter presents the study of Software Defined Radio applications on homogeneous multi-core architectures based on the Silicon Café template. Two instances of the template have been realized and implemented on an Altera Stratix IV FPGA device. Ninesilica, the first instance of the template, is a homogeneous 3 × 3 mesh of processing elements realizing a standalone cluster. The second instance of the template is a clustered architecture composed of four Ninesilica clusters. Significant kernels of WCDMA and OFDM kernels were ported on the architectures analyzing the platform performance in terms of computational power, algorithm scalability, energy consumption and efficiency, portability of the mapping and hardware scalability. The achieved results showed that the proposed approach offers a high flexibility and parallelization efficiency, making homogeneous solutions a good candidate for the implementation of SDR systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computing Platforms for Software-Defined Radio
Editors	Waqar Hussain, Jari Nurmi, Jouni Isoaho, Fabio Garzia
Publisher	Springer
Pages	107-119
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-49679-5
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-49678-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49679-5_6
Publication status	Published - 2017
Publication type	A3 Book chapter

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