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Journal of Computer Systems, Networks, and Communications
Volume 2010, Article ID 793807, 16 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/793807
Research Article

Multimode Flex-Interleaver Core for Baseband Processor Platform

Rizwan Asghar and Dake Liu

Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden

Received 25 August 2009; Accepted 12 October 2009

Academic Editor: Rashid Saeed

Copyright © 2010 Rizwan Asghar and Dake Liu. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

This paper presents a flexible interleaver architecture supporting multiple standards like WLAN, WiMAX, HSPA+, 3GPP-LTE, and DVB. Algorithmic level optimizations like 2D transformation and realization of recursive computation are applied, which appear to be the key to reach to an efficient hardware multiplexing among different interleaver implementations. The presented hardware enables the mapping of vital types of interleavers including multiple block interleavers and convolutional interleaver onto a single architecture. By exploiting the hardware reuse methodology the silicon cost is reduced, and it consumes 0.126 mm2 area in total in 65 nm CMOS process for a fully reconfigurable architecture. It can operate at a frequency of 166 MHz, providing a maximum throughput up to 664 Mbps for a multistream system and 166 Mbps for single stream communication systems, respectively. One of the vital requirements for multimode operation is the fast switching between different standards, which is supported by this hardware with minimal cycle cost overheads. Maximum flexibility and fast switchability among multiple standards during run time makes the proposed architecture a right choice for the radio baseband processing platform.