A Full-Rate Software Implementation of an IEEE 802.11a Compliant Digital Baseband Transmitter

Abstract:

A software based IEEE 802.11a digital baseband transmitter has been implemented on a highly parallel single-chip DSP processor. The processing platform is a programmable and reconfigurable Asynchronous Array of simple Processors (AsAP) that is well matched to complex system workloads such as 802.11a. The transmitter is the first fully-compliant 802.11a software implementation, and is the first full-rate software implementation. The transmitter also complies with the high-rate portions of the 802.11g standard. It operates over all 8 data rates, includes additional upsampling and filtering functions, and sustains transmissions at 54 Mb/s on a 22-processor array—which is expected to occupy less than 20 mm² in 0.18 µm CMOS.

Paper

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Reference

Michael J. Meeuwsen, Omar Sattari, Bevan M. Baas. "A Full-Rate Software Implementation of an IEEE 802.11a Compliant Digital Baseband Transmitter." In Proc. Signal Processing Systems, 2004. SIPS 2004. IEEE Workshop on., October 2004.

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{Meeuwsen:2004:FR11a,
   author =        {M. J. Meeuwsen and O. Sattari and B. M. Baas},
   title =         {A Full-Rate Software Implementation of an {IEEE}
                   {802.11a} Compliant Digital Baseband Transmitter},
   booktitle =     {IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems
                   ({SiPS} '04)},
   month =         oct,
   year =          2004
   }

Last update: October 29, 2004