Presentation
Fast End-to-End Simulation and Exploration of Many-Core Baseband Transceivers for Software-Defined Radio-Access Networks
DescriptionThe fast-rising demand for wireless bandwidth [1] requires rapid evolution of high-performance baseband processing infrastructure. Programmable many-core processors for software-defined radio (SDR) have emerged as high-performance
baseband processing engines, offering the flexibility required to capture evolving wireless standards and technologies [2]–[4]. This trend must be supported by a design framework enabling functional validation and end-to-end performance analysis of SDR hardware within realistic radio environment models. We propose a static binary translation based simulator augmented with a fast, approximate timing model of the hardware and coupled to wireless channel models to simulate the most performance-critical physical layer functions implemented in software on a many (1024) RISC-V cores cluster customized for SDR. Our framework simulates the detection of a 5G OFDM-symbol on a server-class processor in 9.5s-3min, on a single thread, depending on the input MIMO size (three orders of magnitude faster than RTL simulation). The simulation is easily parallelized to 128 threads with 73-121× speedup compared to a single thread.
baseband processing engines, offering the flexibility required to capture evolving wireless standards and technologies [2]–[4]. This trend must be supported by a design framework enabling functional validation and end-to-end performance analysis of SDR hardware within realistic radio environment models. We propose a static binary translation based simulator augmented with a fast, approximate timing model of the hardware and coupled to wireless channel models to simulate the most performance-critical physical layer functions implemented in software on a many (1024) RISC-V cores cluster customized for SDR. Our framework simulates the detection of a 5G OFDM-symbol on a server-class processor in 9.5s-3min, on a single thread, depending on the input MIMO size (three orders of magnitude faster than RTL simulation). The simulation is easily parallelized to 128 threads with 73-121× speedup compared to a single thread.
Event Type
Research Manuscript
TimeMonday, June 233:30pm - 3:45pm PDT
Location3008, Level 3
Systems
SYS2: Design of Cyber-Physical Systems and IoT