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FPGA Modem Platform Design for eHSPA and Its Regularized Verification Methodology  

Kwon, Hyun-Il (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University)
Kim, Kyung-Ho (Samsung Electronics)
Lee, Chung-Yong (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD / v.46, no.2, 2009 , pp. 24-30 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, the FPGA modem platform complying with 3GPP Release 7 eHSPA specifications and its regularized verification flow are proposed. The FFGA platform consists of modem board supporting physical layer requirements, MCU and DSP core embedded control board to drive the modem board, and peripheral boards for RF interfacing and various equipment interfaces. On the other hand, the proposed verification flow has been regularized into three categories according to the correlation degrees of hardware-software inter-operation, such as simple function test, scenario test call processing and system-level performance test. When it comes to real implementations, the emulation verification strategy for low power mobile SoC is also introduced.
Keywords
eHSPA; FPGA; Platform; Verification;
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