Research Article

A System on a Programmable Chip Architecture for Data-Dependent Superimposed Training Channel Estimation

Table 3

Comparisons between software-only and hardware optimized operations.

Operation Implementation Performance increment
Software onlyHardware accelerated
CyclesTime [ms]CyclesTime [ms]

Vector reshape and arithmetic mean 74824 0.75 2238 0.02 37.5x
1024 points FFT 1591929 15.92 56743 0.57 27.92x
Norm of all the output data from the FFT 3144061 31.44 138511 1.39 22.61x
CFO iterative process 354248859 3.54249 319750003 3.1975 1.1x