On the FPGA-based implementation of a flexible waveform from a high-level description: Application to LTE FFT case study

International audienceThe Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology is expected to play a key role in the development of Software Defined Radio (SDR) platforms. To this aim, leveraging the nascent High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tools, a design flow from high-level specifications to Register-Transfer Level (RTL) description can be thought to generate processing blocks that can be reconfigured at run-time. Based on such a flow, this paper describes the architectural exploration of a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) for Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard. Synthesis results show the tradeoff between reconfiguration time and area that can be achieved with such an approach