11 1 The Next Generation Challenge for Software Defined Radio Mark Woh 1, Sangwon Seo 1, Hyunseok Lee 1, Yuan Lin 1, Scott Mahlke 1, Trevor Mudge 1, Chaitali Chakrabarti 2, Krisztian Flautner 3 1 Advanced Computer Architecture Lab, University of Michigan 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University 3 ARM, Ltd.
22 2 University of Michigan -SAMOS G Wireless Large Coverage Outdoor - High Mobility Up to 14Mbps
33 3 University of Michigan -SAMOS 2007 Expected Wireless Growth The growth of wireless will require more bandwidth
44 4 University of Michigan -SAMOS G Wireless What we need Adaptive high performance transmission system Great candidate for SDR Large Coverage – 100Mbps Coverage Outdoor - High Mobility Macro Cells Pico Cells Isolated HotSpots – 1Gbps Coverage Indoor – Very Low Mobility
55 5 University of Michigan -SAMOS 2007 Next Generation Wireless – 4G 3 Major Components to 4G Modulation/Demodulation Multiple-Input Multiple-Out (MIMO) Channel Decoder/Encoders
66 6 University of Michigan -SAMOS 2007 Modulation - OFDM Can be implemented with IFFT/FFT
77 7 University of Michigan -SAMOS 2007 Major Component of Modulation – FFT/IFFT Very wide data level parallelism Requires complex operations
88 8 University of Michigan -SAMOS 2007 MIMO (Multiple Input – Multiple Out) Previously we used single antenna systems Now we use multiple antennas to increase the channel capacity Diversity - High Reliability Space Time Block Codes (STBC) Multiplexing – High Throughput Vertical-BLAST (V-BLAST)
99 9 University of Michigan -SAMOS 2007 Space Time Block Codes (STBC)
10 University of Michigan -SAMOS 2007 STBC Requires complex operations Low Data Movement Highly parallelizable
11 University of Michigan -SAMOS 2007 Vertical-BLAST (V-BLAST)
12 University of Michigan -SAMOS 2007 V-BLAST Implementation Based on Square Root Method for V-BLAST Original requires repeated pseudo-inverse calculation for finding the strongest signal This algorithm has reduces complexity Complexity Requires matrix operations on complex numbers Many Matrix Transformations
13 University of Michigan -SAMOS 2007 Channel Decoding 3G Technologies in 4G Viterbi Turbo Decoder New to 4G LDPC Better performance characteristics compared to Turbo and Viterbi
14 University of Michigan -SAMOS 2007 LDPC
15 University of Michigan -SAMOS 2007 LDPC Min-Sum Decoding Used Regular LDPC code Can get benefit from Wide SIMD Can do the Bit Node and Check Node Alignment of Check and Bit nodes is a problem
16 University of Michigan -SAMOS 2007 SODA PE Architecture SIMD – 32 Wide, 16-bit datapath, Predicate Execution
17 University of Michigan -SAMOS 2007 Key 4G algorithms 100 Mbps1 Gbps MCycle/s FFT2x3604x360 IFFT2x3604x360 STBC240- V-BLAST-1900 LDPC77004x G Workload on SODA 100 Mbps 4G requires 8Ghz SODA PE 1 Gbps 4G requires 20Ghz SODA PE
18 University of Michigan -SAMOS 2007 SODA With Technology Scaling 180nm130nm90nm65nm45nm32nm22nm Vdd (V)
19 University of Michigan -SAMOS 2007 We can’t do any of 4G with technology scaling on one core Would 8GHz cores even be an energy efficient solution? What about 1Gbps? Are we ever going to get a 20GHz core? Cannot rely on technology scaling to give us 4G for free 4G SDR will require algorithmic and architectural innovations SDR Challenges In 4G
20 University of Michigan -SAMOS G Algorithm-Architectural Co-design Architectural improvements (SODA II) Specialized functional units CISC-like complex arithmetic operations Specialized data movement hardware Less strain on the memory system Wider SIMD How wide can we go? More PEs What does the interconnect look like? Algorithmic optimization through parallelization Reduce intra-kernel communication Reduce memory accesses Arithmetic is much cheaper than data movement
21 University of Michigan -SAMOS 2007 Thanks Questions?
22 University of Michigan -SAMOS 2007 Successive Cancelling for V-BLAST V-BLAST successive interference cancelling (SIC) The ith ZF-nulling vector w i is defined as the unique minimum-norm vector satisfying Orthogonal to the subspace spanned by the contributions to y i due to the symbols not yet estimated and cancelled and is given by the ith row of
23 University of Michigan -SAMOS 2007 Alamouti Scheme Assumption: the channel remains unchanged over two consecutive symbols Rate = 1 Diversity order = 2 Simple decoding
24 University of Michigan -SAMOS 2007 Advantages of Software Defined Radio Multi-mode operations Lower costs Faster time to market Prototyping and bug fixes Chip volumes Longevity of platforms Enables future wireless communication innovations Cognitive radio