The Application of Programmable DSPs in Mobile Communications

Contents

Biographies

List of Contributors

1 Introduction

Edgar Auslander and Alan Gatherer

1.1 It's a Personal Matter

1.2 The Super Phone?

1.3 New Services

1.4 The Curse and Opportunity of Moore's Law

1.5 The Book

2 The History of DSP Based Architectures in Second Generation Cellular Handsets

Alan Gatherer, Trudy Stetzler and Edgar Auslander

2.1 Introduction

2.2 A History of Cellular Standards and Wireless Handset Architectures

2.2.1 1G and 2G Standards

2.2.2 2.5G and 3G Standards

2.2.3 Architecture Evolution

2.3 Trends in Low Power DSPs

2.3.1 Process Improvement

2.3.2 Instruction Set Enhancement

2.3.3 Power Management

References

3 The Role of Programmable DSPs in Dual Mode (2G and 3G) Handsets

Chaitali Sengupta, Nicolas Veau, Sundararajan Sriram, Zhenguo Gu and Paul Folacci

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The Wireless Standards

3.3 A Generic FDD DS Digital Baseband (DBB) Functional View

3.4 Functional Description of a Dual-Mode System

3.5 Complexity Analysis and HW/SW Partitioning

3.5.1 2G/3G Digital Baseband Processing Optimized Partitioning

3.6 Hardware Design Approaches

3.6.1 Design Considerations: Centralized vs. Distributed Architectures

3.6.2 The Coprocessor Approach

3.6.3 Role of DSP in 2G and Dual-Mode

3.7 Software Processing and Interface with Higher Layers

3.8 Summary

3.9 Abbreviations

References

4 Programmable DSPs for 3G Base Station Modems

Dale Hocevar, Pierre Bertrand, Eric Biscondi, Alan Gatherer, Frank Honore, Armelle Laine, Simon Morris, Sriram Sundararajan and Tod ...