Computing Platforms for Software-Defined Radio [Paperback]

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. 

Chapter1. The Evolution of Software Defined Radio - An Introduction.- Part I: Architectures, Designs and Implementations.- Chapter2. Design Transformation from a Single-Core to a Multi-Core Architecture targeting Massively-Parallel Signal Processing Algorithms.- Chapter3. The CoreVA-MPSoC - A Multiprocessor Platform for Software-Defined Radio.- Chapter4. Design and Implementation of IEEE 802.11a/g Receiver Blocks on a Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Array.- Chapter5. Recon
gurable Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip.- Chapter6. NineSilica: A Homogeneous MPSoC approach for SDR platforms.- Part II: Software-based Radio Cognition and Implementation Tools.- Chapter7. Application of the Scalable Communications Core as an SDR Baseband.- Chapter8. HW/SW Co-Design Toolset for Customization of Exposed Datapath Processors.- Chapter9. FPGA-based Cognitive Radio Platform with Recon
gurable Front-End and Antenna.- Chapter10. Synchronization in NC-OFDM-Based CR Platforms.- Chapter11. Towards Adaptive Cryptography and Security with Software De
ned Platforms.- Chapter12. The Future of Software-Defined Radio-Recommendations.

 

Dr. Waqar Hussain is currently a Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Tal³2