A System View on Iterative MIMO Detection: Dynamic Sphere Detection versus Fixed Effort List Detection

Table 3

Implementation results for the components of the fixed effort list detector architecture after place & route for a clock frequency of 300 MHz.

At 300 MHz	Fixed effort detector		LLR-unit
Modulation	16-QAM	64-QAM	16-QAM	64-QAM
List size	32	128	32	128
Area	0.36 mm^2		0.14 mm^2
Throughput	267 Mbit/s	109 Mbit/s	141 Mbit/s	55 Mbit/s
Power	103 mW	118 mW	21 mW	31 mW