Nilam Ruparelia, Microsemi

• DSP capabilities of SoC FPGAs address emerging small cell requirements

  Nilam Ruparelia Microsemi

  The insatiable demand for increased communication bandwidth is driving the development of new wireless architectures and the deployment of a wide variety of new wireless infrastructure devices. Of the two key approaches – a centralized homogeneous network architecture and a distributed heterogeneous network architecture of small cells – the small cell approach has much more stringent constraints on power, cost, and footprint. These constraints are driving the use of efficient DSP implementations with some implementations using both a DSP processor and a companion SoC FPGA.