The sandbridge SDR communications platform

Multimedia convergence devices require dramatic increases in computing performance in mobile wireless terminals. Integration of computationally intensive hardware blocks has factorially raised design complexity. To enable elegant reuse of hardware. software defined radio solutions have been proposed. Deploying SDR solutions into mobile terminals presents a number of challenges including power dissipation constraints, software productivity, and real-time system response. In this paper we describe the Sandbridge SDR communications platform and our solutions to providing mobile multimedia convergence devices.