Software Defined Radio

The impending advent of GSM in the early 1990s triggered massive investment that revolutionised the capability of DSP technology. A decade later, the vastly increased processing requirements and potential market of 3G has triggered a similar revolution, with a host of start-up companies claiming revolutionary technologies hoping to challenge and displace incumbent suppliers. This book, with contributions from today's major players and leading start-ups, comprehensively describes both the new approaches and the responses of the incumbents, with detailed descriptions of the design philosophy, architecture, technology maturity and software support. Analysis of SDR baseband processing requirements of cellular handsets and basestations 3G handset baseband - ASIC, DSP, parallel processing, ACM and customised programmable architectures 3G basestation baseband - DSP (including co-processors), FPGA-based approaches, reconfigurable and parallel architectures Architecture optimisation to match 3G air interface and application algorithms Evolution of existing DSP, ASIC & FPGA solutions Assessment of the architectural approaches and the implications of the trends. An essential resource for the 3G product designer, who needs to understand immediate design options within a wider context of future product roadmaps, the book will also benefit researchers and commercial managers who need to understand this rapid evolution of baseband signal processing and its industry impact.

The impending advent of GSM in the early 1990s triggered massiveinvestment that revolutionised the capability of DSP technology. Adecade later, the vastly increased processing requirements andpotential market of 3G has triggered a similar revolution, with ahost of start-up companies claiming revolutionary technologieshoping to challenge and displace incumbent suppliers.This book, with contributions from today's major players andleading start-ups, comprehensively describes both the newapproaches and the responses of the incumbents, with detaileddescriptions of the design philosophy, architecture, technologymaturity and software support.* Analysis of SDR baseband processing requirements of cellularhandsets and basestations* 3G handset baseband - ASIC, DSP, parallel processing, ACM andcustomised programmable architectures* 3G basestation baseband - DSP (including co-processors)FPGA-based approaches, reconfigurable and parallelarchitectures* Architecture optimisation to match 3G air interface andapplication algorithms* Evolution of existing DSP, ASIC & FPGA solutions* Assessment of the architectural approaches and the implicationsof the trends.An essential resource for the 3G product designer, who needs tounderstand immediate design options within a wider context offuture product roadmaps, the book will also benefit researchers andcommercial managers who need to understand this rapid evolution ofbaseband signal processing and its industry impact.

List of Contributors.Foreword (Stephen Blust).Abbreviations.Biographies.Introduction (Walter Tuttlebee).PART I: REQUIREMENTS.1. SDR Baseband Requirements and Direction to Solutions (MarkCummings).PART II: HANDSET TECHNOLOGIES.2. Open Mobile Handset Architectures based on the ZSP500Embedded DSP Core (Jitendra Rayala and Wei-Jei Song).3. DSP for Handsets: The Blackfin Processor (Jose Fridman andZoran Zvonar).4. XPP - An Enabling Technology for SDR Handsets (EberhardSchler and Lorna Tan).5. Adaptive Computing as the Enabling Technology for SDR (DavidChou, et al.).6. The Sandbridge Sandblaster Communications Processor (JohnGlossner, et al.).PART III: BASESTATION TECHNOLOGIES.7. Cost Effective Software Radio for CDMA systems (AlanGatherer, et al.).8. DSP for Basestations - The TigerSHARC (Michael Lopez, etal.).9. Altera System Architecture Solutions for SDR (Paul Ekas).10. FPGAs: A Platform-Based Approach to Software Radios (ChrisDick and Jim Hwang).11. Reconfigurable Parallel DSP - rDSP (Behzad Mohebbi and FadiJ. Kurdahi).12. The picoArray: A Reconfigurable SDR Processor forBasestations (Rupert Baines).PART IV: EPILOGUE: STRATEGIC IMPACT.13. The Impact of Technological Change (WalterTuttlebee).Index.