Applying graphics processor acceleration in a software defined radio prototyping environment
| Title | Applying graphics processor acceleration in a software defined radio prototyping environment |
| Publication Type | Conference Papers |
| Year of Publication | 2011 |
| Authors | Plishker W, Zaki GF, Bhattacharyya SS, Clancy C, Kuykendall J |
| Conference Name | 2011 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP) |
| Date Published | 2011 |
| Keywords | Acceleration, coprocessors, dataflow foundation, GNU radio, Graphics processing unit, graphics processor acceleration, Kernel, Libraries, multicore platforms, Multicore processing, PARALLEL PROCESSING, Pipelines, Protocols, software defined radio prototyping environment, software radio, stand-alone GPU accelerated library |
| Abstract | With higher bandwidth requirements and more complex protocols, software defined radio (SDR) has ever growing computational demands. SDR applications have different levels of parallelism that can be exploited on multicore platforms, but design and programming difficulties have inhibited the adoption of specialized multicore platforms like graphics processors (GPUs). In this work we propose a new design flow that augments a popular existing SDR development environment (GNU Radio), with a dataflow foundation and a stand-alone GPU accelerated library. The approach gives an SDR developer the ability to prototype a GPU accelerated application and explore its design space fast and effectively. We demonstrate this design flow on a standard SDR benchmark and show that deciding how to utilize a GPU can be non-trivial for even relatively simple applications. |