Parametric Design for Reconfigurable Software-Defined Radio

Run-time reconfigurable FPGAs are powerful platforms for realising software-defined radio systems. This paper introduces a parametric approach to designing such systems based on application and device parameters. We analyse the potential for reconfiguration in several software-defined radio components and demonstrate how the degree of parallelism in a reconfigurable module influences reconfiguration time and performance. In a case study with a reconfigurable FIR filter, our method increases the performance by a factor of 2.4.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ARC
• Authors: Tobias Becker, Wayne Luk, Peter Y. K. Cheung
• Keywords: ARC 2009, Hardware, Run-time Reconfigurable Fpgas, Software-defined Radio, Software-defined Radio Systems