3G Long Term Evolution Baseband Processing with Application-Specific Processors

Table 5

Area of the core processor without memories and data memory requirements of the processors.

TTA processor	Clk. freq. 𝑓𝑖 (MHz)	Area (kGE)	Data memory requirements (kbits)
FFT	250	30.5	65.5 divided into 2 single-port memory banks
QR	250	17.7	1.5 dual-port memory
LSD	250	23.6	0.0 (uses only registers)
Turbo decoder	250	35.1	281.7 divided into 16 single-port memory banks