A 46 Gbps 12 pJ/b Sparsity-Adaptive Beamspace Equalizer for mmWave Massive MIMO in 22FDX

Autor:	Mirfarshbafan, Seyed Hadi, Studer, Christoph
Rok vydání:	2024
Předmět:	Computer Science - Hardware Architecture
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	We present a GlobalFoundries 22FDX FD-SOI application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) of a beamspace equalizer for millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The ASIC implements a recently-proposed power-saving technique called sparsity-adaptive equalization (SPADE). SPADE exploits the inherent sparsity of mmWave channels in the beamspace domain to reduce the dynamic power of matrix-vector products by skipping multiplications for which the magnitude of both operands are below pre-defined thresholds. Simulations with realistic mmWave channels show that SPADE incurs less than 0.7dB SNR degradation at 1% target bit error rate compared to antenna-domain equalization. ASIC measurement results demonstrate an equalization throughput of 46Gbps and show that SPADE offers up to 38% power savings compared to antenna-domain equalization. A comparison with state-of-the-art massive MIMO equalizer designs reveals that our ASIC achieves superior normalized energy efficiency. Comment: to be published in IEEE TCAS-II
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06755 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv