• Computational Communications

The System Chip Design Center (SCDL) is involved in research in computation communications or the application of programmable gate arrays (PGA) to digital signal processing in digital communications.  Current projects include:

• PGA signal processing for multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication

• Channel estimation and equalization in MIMO

• Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) in MIMO

• Transmit diversity signal processing techniques

• Turbo code processing, SNR estimation and stopping rules

• Software radio

• Vector Processing in PGAs

The SCDL is investigating the emerging paradigm of wavefront and vector processing in PGAs with applications to antenna array processing and software radio.  Critical path timing and real-time benching of vector processing is crucial to compute-intensive pipeline processing.  The Xilinx Chipscope EDA is being investigated for application engine timing and verification.

• Research

• SystemVue Simulation

SystemVue by Agilent is used to simulate digital communication systems with models and to investigate the performance of fine-grained, variable fixed point digital signal processing algorithms.