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A MAC System Design for High-speed UWB SoC  

Kim, Do-Hoon (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Yonsei University)
Wee, Jeong-Wook (Korea Electronics Technology Institute)
Lee, Chung-Yong (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Yonsei University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC / v.48, no.4, 2011 , pp. 1-5 More about this Journal
Abstract
We present the implementation of MAC system for MBOA UWB SoC. The implemented MBOA MAC algorithm is not master control mechanism, but distributed network mechanism. Therefore, mesh network can be easily constructed because MAC consists of distributed network and administrates network. The ARM926EJ with cache is adopted for high performnace and AMBA bus is applied for system design and reuse. In addition, the system operating clock management algorithm is implemented for low power consumption. The dedicated DMA for MAC is designed between the system memory buffer and MAC hardware, and the dedicated DMA for USB 2.0 is also implemented between system memory buffer and host for high data transaction.
Keywords
UWB; MAC; MBOA; AMBA;
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