一种高效的无线数字通讯的SoC设计方法及其在无线局域网芯片设计中的应用

介绍一种针对高性能的无线数字通讯系统的SoC设计方法。该方法对SoC设计要求高效合理地进行软硬件划分,将划分后的硬件子模块映像到一个高效的多通道总线拓扑结构中以及为不同通道的本地总线设计一个高效自适应的访问协议。同时提出一种全新的专门针对SoC设计、基于总线监控的高效实用的可测性设计方案。以这些设计方法为指导,文章为IEEE 802.11无线局域网的介质访问层和基带控制层的SoC芯片设计提出了一个系统参考解决方案。

An efficient methodology for the SoC design of wireless digital communication and its application in a WLAN IC design

In this paper, an efficient methodology for high-performance wireless digitalcommunication is described. This methodology optimally partitions the requirement of SoC designinto software and hardware,optically maps the hardware components into a high-performance multi-channel topology, and design the adaptive bus access protocol for each channel. Further more, anovel build-in self-test mechanism which is based on bus access monitoring and much more impactfulfor large scale SoC design is presented in this paper. Based on these methodologies, a SoC design ofIEEE 802.11 WLAN's MAC and Baseband controller is presented.