Research Article

Enabling VLSI Processing Blocks for MIMO-OFDM Communications

Table 4

FPGA synthesis results for matrix factorization building block.

Tech. μmxc4vlx200xc2v1000xc4vlx200

Handled matrices 8 × 8 Real 4 × 4 Complex 4 × 4 Complex
ArrayTALASE
no. of PEs3242
f c l k MHz89101115
Area8321(9%)1666 Slices (32%)9117 Slices (10%) +
92 DSP484 BRAM (10%)22 DSP48 (23%) + 9 BRAM (3%)
Throughput1.85 Mmat/s0.45 Mmat/s0.15 Mmat/s