Research Article
Frame-based Modeling for Automatic Synthesis of FPGA-Software Defined Radio
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.crowncom.2014.255289, author={Ganda Ouedraogo and Matthieu Gautier and Olivier Sentieys}, title={Frame-based Modeling for Automatic Synthesis of FPGA-Software Defined Radio}, proceedings={9th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={CROWNCOM}, year={2014}, month={7}, keywords={software defined radio high level synthesis fpga domain specific languages}, doi={10.4108/icst.crowncom.2014.255289} }- Ganda Ouedraogo
Matthieu Gautier
Olivier Sentieys
Year: 2014
Frame-based Modeling for Automatic Synthesis of FPGA-Software Defined Radio
CROWNCOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/icst.crowncom.2014.255289
Abstract
Software Defined Radio (SDR) is now becoming a ubiquitous concept to describe and implement Physical Layers (PHYs) of wireless systems. Moreover, even though the FPGA is expected to play a key role in SDR, describing a PHY at the Register-Transfer-Level (RTL) requires tremendous efforts. This paper introduces a novel methodology to rapidly implement PHYs for SDR. The work relies upon High-Level Synthesis tools and dataflow modeling in order to infer an efficient RTL control unit for the application.
The proposed software-based over-layer partly handles the complexity of programming an FPGA and integrates reconfigurable features. It consists essentially of a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) combined to a DSL-Compiler. An IEEE 802.11a transceiver has been explored via this approach in order to show the flexibility features.