Research Article
A System View on Iterative MIMO Detection: Dynamic Sphere Detection versus Fixed Effort List Detection
Table 1
ASIC implementations of recently reported MIMO detectors.
| Publication | [3] | [4] | [5] | [6] | [7] | [8] |
| Algorithm | Hard-output | Soft-output | SISO | Soft-output | Hard-output | SISO | sphere decoder | STS-SD | STS-SD | MBF-FD | K-best | MMSE-PIC | Antenna | | | | | | | Modulation | 16-QAM | 16-QAM | 16-QAM | 64-QAM | 64-QAM | 64-QAM |
| Iterative decoding | no | no | yes | no | no | yes | Constant throughput | no | no | no | no | yes | yes |
| Technology | 250 nm | 250 nm | 90 nm | 130 nm | 130 nm | 90 nm | Clock frequency | 71 MHz | 71 MHz | 250 MHz | 198 MHz | 138 MHz | 568 MHz | Core area | 50 KG | 57 KG | 96 KG | 350 KG | 491 KG | 410 KG | Max. throughput | 169 Mbit/s | 70 Mbit/s | 72 Mbit/s | 429 Mbit/s | 1200 Mbit/s | 757 Mbit/s | Power consumption | — | — | — | 58.2 mW | 185 mW | 189.1 mW |
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