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The Sandbridge SB3011 Platform

  • John Glossner1Email author,
  • Daniel Iancu1,
  • Mayan Moudgill1,
  • Gary Nacer1,
  • Sanjay Jinturkar1,
  • Stuart Stanley1 and
  • Michael Schulte1
EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems20072007:056467

https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/56467

©  John Glossner et al. 2007

Received: 1 August 2006

Accepted: 20 February 2007

Published: 26 April 2007

Abstract

This paper describes the Sandbridge Sandblaster real-time software-defined radio platform. Specifically, we describe the SB3011 system-on-a-chip multiprocessor. We describe the software development system that enables real-time execution of communications and multimedia applications. We provide results for a number of interesting communications and multimedia systems including UMTS, DVB-H, WiMAX, WiFi, and NTSC video decoding. Each processor core achieves 600 MHz at 0.9 V operation while typically dissipating 75 mW in 90 nm technology. The entire chip typically dissipates less than 500 mW at 0.9 V.

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Authors’ Affiliations

(1)
Sandbridge Technologies, Inc.

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