BBP1
BBP1 is a fully programmable radio baseband processor optimized for Wireless LAN applications (802.11a/b/g). It was built to demonstrate the flexibility and performance of our architecture.
A clock frequency of 160 MHz is required to run 802.11a, which is the most demanding of the implemented standards. In addition to the WLAN standards the processor can also manage less demanding standards e.g. Bluetooth and GSM/GPRS. A die photo of the manufactured chip as well as chip data and measurment results are given below.

Chip Features | |
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Process | 0.18 um CMOS |
Core voltage | 1.8 V |
I/O voltage | 3.3 V |
Chip area | 5.0 mm2 |
Core area | 2.9 mm2 |
Logic area | 1.9 mm2 |
Memory area | 1.0 mm2 |
Package | 144 pin fpBGA |
Measured Max Frequency | 220 MHz |
Measured Core Power @160 MHz | |
Idle | 44 mW |
11a Rx burst | 126 mW |
Publications
Dake Liu and Eric Tell Chapter 23, Low power Baseband Processors for Communications Low Power Electronics Design, Edited by professor Christian Piguet, CRC Press, ISBN 0-8493-1941-2, 2005
Eric Tell, Anders Nilsson, and Dake Liu A Low Area and Low Power Programmable Baseband Processor Architecture Proc of the International workshop on SoC for real-time applications, Banff, Canada, July 2005
Eric Tell, Olle Seger, and Dake Liu A Converged Hardware Solution for FFT, DCT and Walsh Transform Proc of the International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (ISSPA), Paris, France, Vol. I, pp. 609 - 612, July 2003
Eric Tell, Anders Nilsson, and Dake Liu Implementation of a Programmable Baseband Processor Proc of Radiovetenskap och Kommunikation (RVK), Linköping, Sweden, June 2005
Eric Tell and Dake Liu A Hardware Architecture for a Multi Mode Block Interleaver Proc of the International Conference on Circuits and Systems for Communications (ICCSC), Moscow, Russia, June 2004
Eric Tell, Mikael Olausson, and Dake Liu A General DSP processor at the cost of 23k gates and 1/2 a man-year design time Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hong Kong, Vol. Vol. 2, pp. 657 - 660, Apr 2003
Eric Tell and Dake Liu A Suitable Channel Equalization Scheme for IEEE 802.11b Proc of the Swedish System-on-Chip Conference (SSoCC), Eskilstuna, Sweden, Apr 2003
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