Design & implementation of software defined radios on a homogeneous multi-processor architecture

Abstract

Wireless communications have been one of the main forces behind the growth of microelectronics industry for the past two decades. In fact, the continuous technological advance in the field of wireless communications has required the design and implementation of increasingly complex Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) to cope with the higher complexity of algorithms/communication protocols. Furthermore, in the past few years we have witness a gradual shift towards the implementation of multi-mode and multi-standard transceivers.