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 & 300FFT & Turbo50.360.39671813030.13[26]
223QR10.290.2591981980.13[9]
213Sphere Decoder10.920.06561610.13[9]

Total70.380.720