Wireless Communications Systems Design and Considerations

A wireless communication system designer requires a wide range of requirements and conditions. One decision in one design step is closely related to another decision in the next design step. This chapter looks at considerations when designing wireless communications systems. It deals with wireless communication system design flows and considerations, a high level view of wireless communication systems, several implementation techniques, and hardware/software codesign. The chapter focuses on global interconnection, connectivity ratio, and memory management rather than computational logic. Moving to wireless communications system design considerations and several implementation techniques, the chapter discusses five design considerations: bit‐level (bit resolution or word length) decision; the number of computation; algorithm type and property; architecture selection; and implementation‐type selection. The hardware and software (HW/SW) codesign is the most efficient implementation.