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. . . . . . . . 2004. 2005. 2006. 2007. 2008. 2009. Status today:GSM/UMTSBluetoothIrDAFM Radio. WiFi 802.11b. DVB-T/H. WiMax. UWB Wireless USB. NFC. WiFi 802.11g. WiFi 802.11n. Bluetooth 2.0. GPS. Galileo. Cognitive Radio. Trend for Cell Phones. Future Cell Phones are Multi
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2. Future Cell Phones are Multi-Standard ! WiFi
IEEE 802.11b: 11Mb/s wireless LAN @ 2.4GHz (< 100m)
IEEE 802.11g: 54Mb/s wireless LAN @ 2.4GHz (< 100m)
IEEE 802.11a: 54Mb/s wireless LAN @ 5GHz (< 100m)
UWB (IEEE 802.15.3a): 480Mb/s wireless USB2.0 (~ 1m)
WiMax (IEEE 802.16d/e): ~10Mb/s broadband wireless access
NFC: Near Field Communications (RF-ID,)
ZigBee: (IEEE 802.15.4) Sensor Networks, remote control
Bluetooth Version 1: 723 kb/s
EDR: 2.2 Mb/s
WiFi
IEEE 802.11b: 11Mb/s wireless LAN @ 2.4GHz (< 100m)
IEEE 802.11g: 54Mb/s wireless LAN @ 2.4GHz (< 100m)
IEEE 802.11a: 54Mb/s wireless LAN @ 5GHz (< 100m)
UWB (IEEE 802.15.3a): 480Mb/s wireless USB2.0 (~ 1m)
WiMax (IEEE 802.16d/e): ~10Mb/s broadband wireless access
NFC: Near Field Communications (RF-ID,)
ZigBee: (IEEE 802.15.4) Sensor Networks, remote control
Bluetooth Version 1: 723 kb/s
EDR: 2.2 Mb/s
3. Outline Multi-Standard Radio: Requirements and Challenges
Parallelism The Key to Low-Power and High-Performance
The Baseband Processor Architecture
Profiling Results
Summary and Outlook
4. Multi Standard Cell Phone Requirements More flexibility and scalability necessary for baseband processing
Variety of existing and evolving standards
Diversification of products
Time to market
Costs: one common platform for all regions and product classes
Easy-to-program solution
Standards to be supported (some of them concurrently)
UMTS FDD at 384 kb/s
CDMA2000 1x DV
GSM/GPRS/EDGE class 12
IEEE 802.11b / g (802.11g with reduce data rate)
Bluetooth
DAB
GPS
5. Architecture Challenge for the Baseband Processor Strategy:
Search for most flexible architecture that meets power constraints !
6. Data Level Parallelism in DSPs Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) or Vector Processing :
7. Instruction Level Parallelism in DSPs Multiple instructions: e.g. VLIW :
8. Task or Tread Level Parallelism in DSPs Multiple interleaved threads sharing one EU
9. Baseband Processor Architecture
10. Block Diagram of Multi-Tasked SIMD Core
12. Profiling Test Case Transmission of a data frame from STA11) to STA2 according to 802.11b standard
Reception of frame in STA2
Trace of tasks starting, terminating, synchronizing
Trace of messages between PHY2) and MAC3)
Generation of ACK4) frame upon correct reception
Meet SIFS5) (see illustration on next page)
14. Detailed Function Profiling
15. Profiling Results Profiling on a virtual prototype is crucial for hardware optimization
The overhead for synchronization between tasks running in different threads is very costly
Mapping of tasks onto the hardware has to be done carefully
Mapping must be supported by automatic tools
16. Summary & Outlook Future multi-standard cell phones require flexible baseband processing
Parallel LIW-SIMD processors offers most flexible solution
Profiling results show feasibility of approach
Virtual prototyping necessary for architecture space exploration
Systematic design space exploration requires new approaches of function and architecture modeling
Status and outlook
Virtual prototype of platform available
Demonstrator of platform by end of 2005
SDR RF Front-end cooperation between BWRC and Infineon
Product possible in 2007/08