Alfredo Muniz
ABSTRACT
Software radio system performance can be significantly enhanced with appropriate architectural choices, such as the GNU Radio USRP's division of roles between an FPGA and a general purpose CPU. Heterogeneous architectures provide the most flexibility for achieving high computational performance; yet have not been fully exploited by today's software radio architectures. This paper reports on a GNU Radio implementation for the Texas Instruments TCI663X SOC DSP/ARM that was publically released in 2014 and has seen widespread use in the telecommunications industry.
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- Enhancing GNU Radio with Heterogeneous Computing
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