Paper
Review of Reconfigurable Architectures for the Next Generation of Mobile Device Telecommunications Systems
- Authors:
- Ahmed O. El-Rayis; Tughrul Arslan; Khalid Benkrid
- Abstract
- The development of mobile devices has challenged hardware designers to come up with suitable architectures. Challenges such as power consumption, flexibility, processing power and area are likely to lead to the need for a reconfigurable architecture to cater for the growing demands made of mobile devices, and to suit the needs of the next generation of devices. Parallelism and multifunction in real-time will be the minimum required characteristics of the architectures of such devices. This chapter reviews the currently available reconfigurable architectures. The focus here is on coarse-grain reconfigurable architectures, with particular attention to those which support dynamic reconfiguration with low-power consumption. The capacity for dynamic reconfiguration will be a key factor in defining the most suitable architecture for future generations of mobile devices. This paper describes existing reconfigurable platforms. Their principles of operation, architectures and structures are discussed highlighting their advantages and disadvantages. Various coarse-grain reconfigurable architectures are discussed along with their improvement with time. Finally, the key characteristics which are required for a reconfigurable architecture to be suitable for telecommunication systems are identified. A comparison is given for the various architectures discussed in terms of suitability for telecommunications applications.
- Keywords
- Coarse Grain Reconfigurable Architecture; FPGA; ASIC; DSP; Dynamic Reconfiguration; Low Power Consumption
- StartPage
- 256
- EndPage
- 277
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