Software Defined Radio - A High Performance Embedded Challenge

Trevor Mudge, Bredt Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - USA

Abstract: Wireless communication protocols today have a computationally demanding workload that has to be supported by mobile terminals with limited energy budgets. Traditionally these goals were satisfied by an ASIC solution. But the need to interoperate between a wide range of protocols has lead to research into programmable hardware. This talk will analyze the computational requirements of several common wireless protocols and propose a strawman programmable architecture for the wireless baseband domain.

About the speaker: Trevor Mudge received Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois. Since then he has been at the University of Michigan. He was named the Bredt Professor of Engineering after a ten year term as Director of the Advanced Computer Architecture Laboratory -- a group of a dozen faculty and 80 graduate students. He is author of numerous papers on computer architecture, programming languages, VLSI design, and computer vision. He has also chaired 33 theses in these research areas. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the ACM, the IET, and the British Computer Society.
 

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