Software Defined Radio: Baseband Technologies for 3G Handsets and Basestations

Foreword (Stephen Blust).

Abbreviations.

Biographies.

Introduction (Walter Tuttlebee).

PART I: REQUIREMENTS.

1. SDR Baseband Requirements and Direction to Solutions (Mark Cummings).

PART II: HANDSET TECHNOLOGIES.

2. Open Mobile Handset Architectures based on the ZSP500 Embedded DSP Core (Jitendra Rayala and Wei-Jei Song).

3. DSP for Handsets: The Blackfin Processor (Jose Fridman and Zoran Zvonar).

4. XPP - An Enabling Technology for SDR Handsets (Eberhard Schler and Lorna Tan).

5. Adaptive Computing as the Enabling Technology for SDR (David Chou, et al.).

6. The Sandbridge Sandblaster Communications Processor (John Glossner, et al.).

PART III: BASESTATION TECHNOLOGIES.

7. Cost Effective Software Radio for CDMA systems (Alan Gatherer, et al.).

8. DSP for Basestations - The TigerSHARC (Michael Lopez, et al.).

9. Altera System Architecture Solutions for SDR (Paul Ekas).

10. FPGAs: A Platform-Based Approach to Software Radios (Chris Dick and Jim Hwang).

11. Reconfigurable Parallel DSP - rDSP (Behzad Mohebbi and Fadi J. Kurdahi).

12. The picoArray: A Reconfigurable SDR Processor for Basestations (Rupert Baines).

PART IV: EPILOGUE: STRATEGIC IMPACT.

13. The Impact of Technological Change  (Walter Tuttlebee).

Index.