Sunday, January 13, 2008

Reconfigurable ECAs - new platform for SDR?

Article by Chen Zhang, Virginia Tech. Chen implemented a simple ZigBee using an ECA (Element CXI's Elemental Computing Array). ECAs provide "higher computational density, lower power consumption and higher structural robustness" [1] compared to GPPs, FPGAs and DSPs. It looks like a great new platform for Software Defined Radio (SDR) projects!

[1] Dynamically-reconfigurable ECAs - Part 4 (Student Project #2), Programmable Logic, Jan 2, 2008

Related:
ECA Architecture
ECA Programming Model
ECA Project (FIR Filter)
ECA Project (Image Processing Algorithm, ECA vs FPGA)

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