Plate-forme hétérogène reconfigurable : application à la radio logicielle

The Software Defined Radio (SDR) techniques aim at offering an access to a broad choice of radio communications standards on a flexible hardware (HW) architecture which is necessary in order to answer the diversity of the processing to carry out. The digital communications techniques involve heterogeneous resources needs. The reconfigurability of a heterogeneous HW platform is thus a key features to a successful appearance of SDR systems. The reconfigurability of a SDR system must meet the needs for adaptation of the processing functions to answer the requirements of the contexts switching. Our work is based on the analysis of the baseband processing in the transmitting chains of the 3 standards UMTS, GSM and 802. 11g. We propose an analysis of factorization of the multistandard baseband processing in order to reduce the number of contexts to be managed and we determine the needs for flexibility of SDR applications. In this context, the configuration management of HW platforms clearly appears as the key feature of a SDR system. We propose a Hierarchical and Distributed Configuration Management (“HDCM”) approach in order to meet the needs of managing various types of flexibility of dataflow oriented applications mapped on heterogeneous HW. The implementation of applications on reconfigurable heterogeneous platforms and in particular on configurable logic devices, requires the uses of new design methodologies in order to extract the potential reconfigurability of these reconfigurables devices. We bring in this work various design methodologies that aim at designing partially and dynamically reconfigurable systems on chip and on FPGA.