A methodology for efficient high-level dataflow simulation of mixed-signal front-ends of digital telecom transceivers

• Published in: Proceedings 37th Design Automation Conference pp. 440 - 445
• Main Authors: Vandersteen, Gerd, Wambacq, Piet, Rolain, Yves, Dobrovolný, Petr, Donnay, Stéphane, Engels, Marc, Bolsens, Ivo
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 01.01.2000; IEEE
• Series: ACM Conferences
• Subjects: Applied computing > Physical sciences and engineering > Engineering; Baseband; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Computer systems organization > Dependable and fault-tolerant systems and networks; Explosions; Feedback loop; General and reference > Cross-computing tools and techniques > Performance; Hardware > Communication hardware, interfaces and storage; Hardware > Communication hardware, interfaces and storage > Signal processing systems; Mathematics of computing > Discrete mathematics; Networks; Networks > Network performance evaluation; Permission; Radio frequency; Signal representations; Telecommunications; Transceivers
• DOI: 10.1145/337292.337535
• ISBN: 9781581131871; 1581131879

The explosion of the telecommunications market requires miniaturization and cost-effective realization of the front-ends of transceivers for digital telecommunications. New architectures must therefore be simulated at high level. Current methodologies and corresponding tools suffer from common drawbacks, such as lower accuracy, slow simulation speed, etc. A new methodology has been developped for the efficient simulation, at the architectural level, of mixed-signal front-ends of digital telecom transceivers. The efficient execution is obtained using a multi-rate, multi-carrier signal representation together with a dataflow simulation scheme which switches dynamically towards the most efficient signal processing technique available. An implementation of this methodology shows both excellent runtimes and a high accuracy.