Résumé
SDR enables cost-effective multi-mode terminals but still suffers from significant energy penalty when compared to dedicated hardware solutions. At system level, this energy bottleneck can be leveraged capitalizing on heterogeneous MPSOC platforms where specific engines are dedicated to classes of functions with similar computation characteristics and duty cycle. In burst-based communication as in IEEE802.11 or IEEE802.16, burst detection functions have high duty cycle and hence need an ultra low power implementation. Besides, programmability must be preserved to support multiple modes. A low-power pre-synchronization ASIP is designed targeting the IEEE802.11a/g/n and IEEE802.16e synchronization at 20MHz input rate. Power simulations at gate-level show that an IEEE802.16e synchronization (20MHz) can be carried out with an average power of 15.86mW. This corresponds to an effective energy efficiency of 115.89MOPS/mW (32-bit equivalent operations).