Review Article

An Automated Fixed-Point Optimization Tool in MATLAB XSG/SynDSP Environment

Table 1

Summary of wordlength optimization results.

DesignOperation frequencyGate countChip areaArea savings from WL optimization

MIMO SVD [22]100–512 MHz420,3043.5 mm2 in 90 nm30%
Sphere decoder [27]256 MHz85,0000.31 mm2 in 90 nm20%
Neural DSP [28]0.4–1.6 MHz650,0007.04 mm2 in 90 nm15%
Jitter compensation [29]100 MHz9,600 LUTXilinx Virtex V32%
Reconfigurable DFE [32]2.4 GHz100,0000.16 mm2 in 65 nm40%