A low-cost realization of an adaptable protocol processing unit
Maik Boden, Alexia Gleich, S. Rülke, Ulrich Nageldinger · 2005
This paper concerns the realization of an adaptable protocol processing unit (PPU) targeting reconfigurable SoCs in mobile communication applications. The PPU is based on our design technique for dense-coded programmable finite state machines. This approach reduces programming costs by combining memory-based function generators with reconfigurable logic. Furthermore, we added custom modules that implement application-specific logic and arithmetic operations to achieve proper results.