Chapter 14. Application Specific Instruction Set Processor for UMTS-FDD Cell Search

Kimmo Puusaari, Timo Yli-Pietilä, and Kim Rounioja

The wireless terminals of today are capable of rather spectacular tasks: small handheld devices provide users with communication services that seemed unimaginable just 10 years ago. The connectivity with the seemingly omnipresent network is provided by one or more wireless modem engines embedded in the device. These engines are designed to conform to requirements set by the appropriate standard in terms of, for example, performance and processing latencies. For a standard to be competitive against others, the requirements tend to be set according to the upper limit of the capabilities of the contemporary implementation ...

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