Efficient Implementation of OFDM Inner Receiver on a Programmable Multi-Core Processor Platform

This paper presents an efficient implementation of OFDM inner receiver on a programmable multi-core processor platform with CMMB as an application. The platform consists of an array of programmable SIMD processors interconnected in a 2-D mesh network, which can provide high performance and is quite suitable for wireless communication applications. Implemented on one cluster with 8 cores, the receiver includes symbol timing, carrier frequency offset and sampling frequency offset synchronization, channel estimation and equalization. Multiple optimization techniques are explored to improve system throughput such as: task-level parallelism on many cores, data-level parallelism on SIMD cores, minimization of memory access and route-length-minimization task mapping techniques. Besides, efficient memory strategy and specific instructions for complex computation increase the performance. The simulation results show that the inner receiver could achieve a throughput of up to 120 Mbps when operating at 750 MHz.