Chapter 15. Hardware/Software Tradeoffs for Advanced 3G Channel Decoding

Daniel Schmidt and Norbert Wehn

In parts I and II of this book the main goals, problems, and motivational issues of using customizable embedded processors have been discussed thoroughly. Key phrases like Moore’s Law, the “energy/flexibility gap,” the demand of the market for short development times and ever-growing design productivity, and the like are known very well. But while many methodologies, like the automatic instruction-set extensions presented in Chapter 7, are still in research status, how can customizable processors be used in today’s demanding wireless communications applications?

In this chapter we will describe in more detail the implementation of an important ...

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