A 477mW NoC-based digital baseband for MIMO 4G SDR

Fabien Clermidy, Christian Bernard, Romain Lemaire, Jérôme Martin, Ivan Miro-Panades, Yvain Thonnart, Pascal Vivet, Norbert Wehn · 2010

A MIMO 3GPP-LTE digital baseband chip based on a heterogeneous 3 × 5 array NoC using 3.2 GOPS/50 mW programmable VLIW cores is presented. It features less than 10 ¿s run-time full physical layer reconfiguration and distributed power management leading to 477 mW power consumption on a 4 × 2 MIMO RX application.

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