Reconfigurable Modem Datapath

QUALCOMM, Incorporated Engineering, 2009-10

Liaison(s): Aaron Lamb ’96, Ken Easton ’89
Advisor(s): David Money Harris
Students(s): Leo Altmann (F), Kyle Baran (S), Jaakko Karras (TL-F), Tae Lee (F), Andrew Pozo (TL-S), Kramer Straube (S)

Harvey Mudd College 2009-2010 Qualcomm Clinic Team designed a reconfigurable modem datapath capable of performing the FFT and FOR filtering. The team developed a pipelined datapath intended for high throughput and efficient hardware utilization. This design was coded in Verilog and implemented on an FPGA for testing. To create an overall system with higher thoughput, multiple pipelined datapaths were run in parallel. In this implementation, the flow of data into and out of the system was controlled by a soft processor.