Exploring software-defined radio on Multi-Processor System-on-Chip

Sofware-Defined Radio (SDR) has been proposed as a solution for a single device to overcome various and changing radio standards. It allows wide range of computational device, such as personal computer processor and Multi-Processor System-on-Chip (MPSoC) to function as radio baseband processor. Number of works of SDR implementation on MPSoC has been done, variously differing according to underlying hardware platform. Main reason is to utilize the hardware architecture, providing power efficiency and effective processing. This paper explores idea of utilizing RUMPS401 chip, an ARM based heterogeneous MPSoC designed by Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman VLSI Center, as a baseband processor based on its architecture. A workflow of implementing SDR on ARM based MPSoC using Matlab and ARM Keil Development Tools is also proposed here. The implementation and testing of the proposed idea is still an ongoing work.