Multi-Partitioned Software Defined Radio Transceiver Based on Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration

Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration (DPR) proved itself for the implementation of multi-standard Software Defined Radio (SDR). Over the past few years, wireless communication standards witnessed great and rapid evolution. The market is always acquiring higher data rates and more special services. This leads to increase of design complexity, area, and power consumption. Deploying DPR technology on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) made it feasible to design and manufacture all wireless communications standards on the same hardware. Loading each standard on demand reduces area and power consumption. This work implements SDR transceiver system for five wireless communication standards: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 2G, 3G, and LTE on Zynq-7000 evaluation kit. A new partitioning approach is deployed to achieve best performance for all transceivers. The new approach proves its ability to reduce the allocated area and power consumption for all chains. Power reduction for 2G and Bluetooth is 98.43%, for 3G and Wi-Fi is 79.69%, for LTE is 50.09% compared with no DPR approach.