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Title:
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Compact Hardware Accelerator for Functional Verification and Rapid Prototyping of 4G Wireless Communication Systems |
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Author:
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Guo, Yuanbin; McCain, Dennis
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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Keywords:
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hardware; 4G; functional verification; rapid prototyping |
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Citation:
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Y. Guo and D. McCain,"Compact Hardware Accelerator for Functional Verification and Rapid Prototyping of 4G Wireless Communication Systems," in Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, |
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Abstract:
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In this paper, we propose an FPGA-based hardware
accelerator platform with Xilinx Virtex-II V3000 in a compact
PCMCIA form factor. By partitioning the complex algorithms
in the 4G simulator to the hardware accelerator, we apply
an efficient Catapult-C methodology to quickly evaluate the
area/speed tradeoffs and rapidly schedule synthesizable RTL
models for implementation. The simulation time is accelerated by
100£ for a QRD-M algorithm. This not only enables much faster
verification in the 4G standard environment, but also provides
software/hardware co-design and rapid prototyping of the core
algorithm in a realistic fixed-point platform. |
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Date Published:
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2004-11-01 |
