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Vector Processing as an Enabler for Software-Defined Radio in Handheld Devices

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing volume 2005, Article number: 906408 (2005) Cite this article

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A major challenge of software-defined radio (SDR) is to realize many giga operations per second of flexible baseband processing within a power budget of only a few hundred mW. A heterogeneous hardware architecture with the programmable vector processor EVP as key component can support WLAN, UMTS, and other standards. A detailed rationale for the EVP architecture, based on the analysis of a number of key algorithms, as well as implementation and benchmarking results are described.

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  1. Philips Research, Technical University Eindhoven, Professor Holstlaan 4, Eindhoven, 5656 AA, The Netherlands

    Kees van Berkel & Patrick P. E. Meuwissen

  2. Philips Semiconductors, BL Cellular Systems, Nuernberg, 90443, Germany

    Frank Heinle

  3. Philips Semiconductors, DSP Innovation Center, Waalre, The Netherlands

    Kees Moerman

  4. Philips Semiconductors, BL Connectivity, Dresden, 01099, Germany

    Matthias Weiss

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van Berkel, K., Heinle, F., Meuwissen, P.P.E. et al. Vector Processing as an Enabler for Software-Defined Radio in Handheld Devices. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2005, 906408 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1155/ASP.2005.2613

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