Research Article
3G Long Term Evolution Baseband Processing with Application-Specific Processors
Table 2
An example baseband processing chain with
antennas, 1201 subcarriers, 16-QAM, 4804-length
turbo code block, data rate 68 Mbps.
| Clk. freq. (MHz) | Task | No. of units | Util. | Delay (ms) | Area (kGE) | Area | Power est. (mW) | Power est. | Tech. (m) | Ref. |
| 600 & 300 | FFT & Turbo | 5 | 0.36 | 0.396 | — | — | 718 | 1303 | 0.13 | [26] | 223 | QR | 1 | 0.29 | 0.259 | 198 | 198 | — | — | 0.13 | [9] | 213 | Sphere Decoder | 1 | 0.92 | 0.065 | 61 | 61 | — | — | 0.13 | [9] |
| Total | 7 | 0.38 | 0.720 | | — | | — | | |
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