Energy-efficient Communication Processors: Design and Implementation for Emerging Wireless Systems

This book describes a new design approach for energy-efficient, Domain-Specific Instruction set Processor (DSIP) architectures for the wireless baseband domain. The innovative techniques presented enable co-design of algorithms, architectures and technology, for efficient implementation of the most advanced technologies. To demonstrate the feasibility of the author s design approach, case studies are included for crucial functionality of advanced wireless systems with increased computational performance, flexibility and reusability. Designers using this approach will benefit from reduced development/product costs and greater scalability to future process technology nodes.

• Describes a DSIP architecture explicitly for the wireless domain, significantly more efficient than methods commonly in use;
• Includes an efficient DSIP architecture template, which can be reused for specific designs;
• Uses holistic design approach, considering all relevant requirements and combining many innovative/disruptive design concepts;
• Enables design portability, given changing target devices.