Research Article

RapidRadio: A Domain-Specific Productivity Enhancing Framework

Table 4

Resource utilization for deployed receivers on a Xilinx Virtex 4 XC4VLX60 FPGA, using a sampling rate of 8 MHz and an operating clock rate of 192 MHz.

RRCOS filter
Constellation Order MSB DSP48 RAMB16 Slices

32QAM 608 31 23 (35%) 27 (16%) 7242 (27%)
16QAM 248 30 25 (39%) 31 (19%) 4348 (16%)
8QAM 176 29 25 (39%) 21 (13%) 5189 (19%)
QPSK 256 30 27 (42%) 33 (20%) 4403 (16%)