A MRMDF FFT processor for MIMO OFDM applications

Abstract

In this paper, the proposed pipelined FFT processor, which is based on MRMDF structure, can deal with the simultaneous multiple input sequences more efficiently for MIMO OFDM applications. Furthermore, the hardware costs of memory and complex multipliers in our method can be saved by means of delay feedback and data scheduling approaches. The higher-radix FFT algorithm is also realized in our processor to reduce the number of complex multiplications. A test chip for 802.11n system has been designed using 0.13 mu m 1P8M CMOS process with core area of 2142 x 660 mu m(2). Power dissipation is 5.2mW when 128 points FFT with four data streams are calculated.