RedCap-5G for IOT application on prototype taped-out silicon
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Overview
Status: Reserved
- Type: Bachelor or Semester Thesis
- Professor: Prof. Dr. L. Benini
- Supervisors:
Introduction
In the past, Broadband IoT use cases, including smart-wearables, and sensors for industrial and household applications, were often served by 4G long-term evolution (LTE). The device complexity, and hence the device cost, has so far been too high for 5G New Radio (NR) to be suited to Broadband IoT, which motivated the introduction of reduced capability (RedCap) 5G NR devices. This standard is configured as a subset of the functionalities of NR. In IIS we are developing a processing pipeline for 5G telecommunications, running on MemPool and TeraPool, two massive 256 and 1024 cores parallel processing fully programmable accelerators based on RISC-V ISA. The backbone hardware architecture of the SoCs is modular and suitable for running a re-scaled version of the software pipeline as well. It is therefore very promising for RedCap applications.
Project
The goal of this project is to configure a RedCap 5G processing pipeline to be run on a scaled-down 16-core version of MemPool: MinPool. This system was taped out in IIS and we are therefore able to do power measurements on it, giving real-world insight into the performance of our hardware on 5G applications.
- You will learn about 5G telecommunications and protocols.
- You will implement a software processing pipeline in C, gaining expertise in the implementation and scheduling of heterogeneous kernels for 5G applications.
- You will learn how to use the tester to measure the power consumption and performance of your pipeline on the MinPool chip!
Character
- 10% Literature Review
- 30% Software Design
- 50% Measurements
- 10% Documentation
Prerequisites
- Strong interest in computer architecture and signal processing
- Experience in C/C++ programming
