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A generic hardware MAC for wireless personal area network platforms

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Summary, in English

This paper presents a generic hardware-MAC for systems designed based on high rate (IEEE 802.15.3) and low rate (IEEE 802.15.4)Wireless Personal Area Networks. functionality that are better run in hardware are moved over from the software part of the MAC layer. An easy to access memory like interface has been defined for data and control transfer between the software and hardware parts of theMAC layer. A key challenge in designing such a system was to arrive at a generic architecture without compromising with either of the standards on the

lines of which the two systems are implemented. Emphasis on

reuse of the modules has been done in order to avoid repetition of design and implementation effort and in turn reducing the time required for testing. The design has been successfully tested on different FPGA platforms.

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Document type

Conference paper

Topic

  • Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

Conference name

International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), 2008

Conference date

2008-09-08 - 2008-09-11

Conference place

Saariselkä, Finland

Status

Published

Research group

  • Digital ASIC