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Behnaam Aazhang, ECE Department, Rice University Chris Dick, Xilinx Corporation |
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Tools & Techniques for Digital Communications Using FPGAs | |||
Developing advanced military and commercial wireless communication
systems presents many challenges in terms of business models,
market drivers, application overlays and computational issues
related to high data rates, advanced channel coding and spatial
processing. Delivering flexible, future-proof, scalable hardware to
the market will require a new way of thinking about system design
and partitioning, especially with respect to the device technologies
that are utilized to service the multimedia and physical layer
aspects of the system. New generation systems demand arithmetic
resourcing measured in the Tera- to Peta-op region. These
considerations,
in combination with the engineering challenges associated
with building 90- and 65-nm silicon, require a new way to
think about system deployment.
Now is the time to re-think traditional approaches to real-time high-performance signal processing. Software-defined radio (SDR) concepts are on a rapid evolutionary path toward satisfying the significant, and some times conflicting, requirements of military and commercial communication systems.
This session provides an overview of how FPGAs are used to
deliver system solutions for communication platforms. An
overview of the latest generation Virtex-4 technology will be provided
with a focus on how to best leverage this technology for
high-performance real-time signal processing. Simulink®
extensions
for generating embedded hardware will be described.
Participants will develop an implementation of a 16-QAM modulator
and verify functionality on an FPGA testbed.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 1:15p.m. - Abercrombie Labs A123 Rice University
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ECE Affiliates Meeting - Afternoon Session
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