Institute for Communication Technologies and Embedded Systems

Architectures for MIMO-OFDM Simplified Decision Directed Channel Estimation

Authors:
Minwegen, A. ,  Auras, D. ,  Deidersen, U. ,  Ascheid, G.
Book Title:
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
Date:
May. 2012
DOI:
10.1109/ISCAS.2012.6271910
Language:
English
Abstract:
VLSI implementations for iterative channel estimation in MIMO-OFDM systems are a challenge for future receivers.
Additionally sufficient flexibility is required to support multi-standard multi-mode operation.
These challenges are investigated in this paper by two VLSI implementations for a MIMO-OFDM decision directed channel estimation (DDCE) algorithm:
The first application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) implementation for simplified decision directed (SIDD) MIMO-OFDM channel estimation and a custom vector processor running a SIDD software implementation.
This work shows that the software implementation of the SIDD algorithm on a custom vector processor can compete with the ASIC implementation.
Both implementations and the efficiency/flexibility trade-offs are analyzed quantitatively.
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