Title
Post Silicon Validation of Digital Radio Interfaces
Abstract
Today, a baseband processor based SoC in the Femtocell domain of devices typically supports a digital radio interface. In an actual system, analog transceivers are connected to these baseband SoCs which are further connected to antennas. Due to complexity of an analog transceiver it is extremely difficult to validate and debug digital radio interfaces. Additionally, this requires complex software and expensive hardware equipment to ensure correct operation. In this paper, we describe a hardware and software methodology that allows for low cost post silicon validation of digital radio interfaces using an FPGA. These techniques helped us achieve the desired post silicon functional coverage that ensured high quality of the designed SoC.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ISED.2012.43
ISED '12 Proceedings of the 2012 International Symposium on Electronic System Design
Keywords
Field
DocType
elemental semiconductors,field programmable gate arrays,silicon,system-on-chip,transceivers,FPGA,Si,analog transceivers,baseband SoC,baseband processor,complex software,digital radio interfaces,femtocell domain,silicon validation,Baseband SoC,FPGA,LTE,Post-silicon,RF,Validation,WCDMA
Digital radio,Baseband,Transceiver,System on a chip,Post-silicon validation,Field-programmable gate array,Baseband processor,Software,Engineering,Embedded system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Deepak Chauhan110.69
Sharad Kumar2384.77
Manoj Sharma300.68