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Baseband Processor Development for 4G IoT

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2G Testbed setup with L2/L3 processing on ZedBoard (top), double RF on evalEDGE v1.0 (middle), and baseband on ML605 (bottom).

Short Description

Various estimates predict 20 to 30 billion embedded devices connected to the Internet in 2020 in what’s called the the Internet of things (IoT). To realize this vision, cellular standards are released to meet the requirements regarding low-power and low-cost of IoT components, especially on the client side. In the latest release of the LTE standard, a new user-equipment category (Cat-0) for Machine to Machine (M2M) communications and the Internet of things (IoT) was introduced [1]. In order to develop signal processing algorithms for the fast evolving LTE landscape a fast prototyping platform is indispensable.

The goal of this project is to design an FPGA-based testbed for 4G/LTE mobile communication. It shall consist of a commercial FPGA board (ML605, see [2]) and a custom RF transceiver extension card. The extension card is currently under development and will have similar features as evalEDGE but it will be LTE capable using RF solutions from [3]. The FPGA on the ML605 shall be used for RF controlling and baseband processing. In addition, the results from Baseband Meets CPU can be used to incorporate higher layer processing using a PULP CPU on the FPGA, as well. Once the testbed is running the baseband processing can be enhanced and software to run on the PULP can be written and immediately tested.

Status: Available

Looking for 1 Master student
Supervision: Benjamin Weber, Harald Kröll

Character

10% Theory
60% System/FPGA Design
30% Software

Prerequisites

VLSI I
Matlab, VHDL, C

Professor

Qiuting Huang

References

[1] Redefining LTE for IoT. http://www.nextgcom.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ARM-NextG-LTE-Cat0-White-Paper-Final.pdf, May 2015.

[2] XILINX. Virtex-6 FPGA ML605 Evaluation Kit. http://www.xilinx.com/ml605, May 2015.

[3] Advanced Circuit Pursuit, ACP AG. http://www.newacp.ch/, May 2015.