Volume 13, Issue 5 pp. 513-518
Multi-Carrier Spread-Spectrum and Related Topics
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Implementation of a sic based MC-CDMA base station receiver

Andrew C. McCormick

Andrew C. McCormick

Alpha Data Parallel Systems Ltd, 58 Timber Bush, Edinburgh EH6 6QH, Scotland

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John S. Thompson

John S. Thompson

School of Engineering and Electronics, The University of Edinburgh, Kings Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JL, Scotland

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Peter M. Grant

Peter M. Grant

School of Engineering and Electronics, The University of Edinburgh, Kings Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JL, Scotland

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Tughrul Arslan

Tughrul Arslan

School of Engineering and Electronics, The University of Edinburgh, Kings Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JL, Scotland

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Ahmet T. Erdogan

Ahmet T. Erdogan

School of Engineering and Electronics, The University of Edinburgh, Kings Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JL, Scotland

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First published: 12 September 2008
Citations: 1

An earlier version of this paper has been presented at the Third International Workshop on Multi-Currier Spread-Spectrum (MCSS 2001).

Abstract

The implementation of a multi carrier-code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) base station receiver incorporating decision statistic ordered successive interference cancellation multi-user detection in low power CMOS hardware is investigated. Serial and parallel cancellation architectures are compared and it is shown that the parallel one operates in far fewer clock cycles than its serial counterpart. A detailed description of architecture is given including the parallel algoridim used to implement the multi-user detection. Results show the power consumption and fixed point performance of the circuit.

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