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Trends in Low Power Handset Software Defined Radio

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Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation (SAMOS 2007)

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This paper presents an overview of trends in low power handset SDR implementations. With the market for SDR-enabled handsets expected to grow to 200M units by 2014, the barriers to efficient handset implementations – both hardware and software – have been removed based on new and innovative architectures. We describe advances in DSP architectures and compilers that are enabling SDR handset implementations and present some results for a specific SDR design.

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  1. Sandbridge Technologies, 1 N. Lexington Ave., White Plains, NY 10601,  

    John Glossner, Daniel Iancu & Mayan Moudgill

  2. UW Madison, Dept. of EECS, Madison, Wisconsin,  

    Michael Schulte

  3. Delft University of Technology, EEMCS, Delft, The Netherlands

    John Glossner & Stamatis Vassiliadis

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Glossner, J., Iancu, D., Moudgill, M., Schulte, M., Vassiliadis, S. (2007). Trends in Low Power Handset Software Defined Radio. In: Vassiliadis, S., Bereković, M., Hämäläinen, T.D. (eds) Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation. SAMOS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4599. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73625-7_33

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