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A Low-Power Low-Cost Design of Primary Synchronization Signal Detection
A Low-Power Low-Cost Design of Primary Synchronization Signal Detection
Abstract—Synchronization is an important component of a the performance of search time. Consequently, it was decided
practical communication system. Furthermore, network entry to adopt Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequences as the downlink primary
including synchronization is important. Since the detection of synchronization signal (PSS) and the uplink random access pre-
primary synchronization signal (PSS) is the first step of network
entry in long term evolution (LTE) systems, thus it may be a amble. The ZC sequences are a group of general-chirp-like se-
critical path for practical systems. Therefore, tradeoff between quences with good correlation properties [1]. To identify the cell
performance and low power consumption and low cost of PSS and obtain synchronization, PSS is detected while cell search
detection needs to be made carefully. This paper presents a takes place. Currently used matched filters [2]–[4] are compu-
new synchronization method for low power and low cost design. tation-intensive since they require a large number of constant
The approach of a 1-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with
down-sampling is compared with that of a 10-bit ADC without complex multiplications.
down-sampling under multi-path fading conditions defined in The main objective of this paper is to propose an efficient
LTE standard for user equipment (UE) performance test [5]. The and accurate PSS detection method with low power and low
simulation results of PSS are obtained on several kinds of chan- cost. The system model, channel model, and PSS definition
nels. The simulation results explicitly show that the performance are introduced in Section II. A brief review of the matched
of the method with down-sampling for 1-bit ADC does not degrade
even if frequency offset exists. Based on the simulation results, filter approach is presented in Section III. Afterwards, both the
different implementation architectures and their synthesis report method of 1-bit ADC with down-sampling and that of 10-bit
and analysis are present. A low-power low-cost design with high ADC without down-sampling for PSS detection are discussed
performance to detect PSS is derived in this paper. in Section IV whereas their simulation results are shown in
Index Terms—Low cost, low power, matched filter, primary syn- Section V. Section VI addresses different implementation
chronization signal (PSS). architectures of PSS detection. Finally, conclusion remarks are
given in Section VII.
I. INTRODUCTION II. SYSTEM MODEL AND PROBLEM DEFINITION
Manuscript received August 26, 2010; revised January 20, 2011; accepted (4)
April 20, 2011. Date of publication May 31, 2011; date of current version June
01, 2012.
The authors are with Beijing Embedded System Key Lab, Beijing Univer- In fading channels, a time-domain guard interval, which is
sity of Technology, Beijing 100124, China (e-mail: machixiang@emails.bjut. named as cyclic prefix (CP), is created by copying the last
edu.cn; jackycaohao@emails.bjut.edu.cn; pinglin@bjut.edu.cn). samples of the IDFT output and appending them at the begin-
Color versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available online
at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. ning of the OFDM symbol to be transmitted. So the transmitted
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TVLSI.2011.2152866 OFDM block consists of samples.
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1162 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS, VOL. 20, NO. 7, JULY 2012
TABLE I TABLE II
DELAY PROFILES FOR E-UTRA CHANNEL MODELS EXTENDED PEDESTRIAN MODEL
TABLE III
EXTENDED VEHICULAR MODEL
(5)
is obtained [9]
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
(13)
(14)
where
(16)
TABLE VIII
SIMULATION ASSUMPTIONS
(18)
TABLE IX [4] P-SCH Sequences, Huawei, Kobe, Japan, “3GPP TSG RAN WG1
COMPARISONS OF TWO ARCHITECTURES Tdoc R1-072321,” 2007.
[5] 3GPP TS 36.101 v8.9.0 3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical
Specification Group Radio Access Network; Evolved Universal Ter-
restrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) Radio Trans-
mission and Reception (Release 8), 3rd Generation Partnership Project,
Tech. Rep., Dec. 2009, 3GPP.
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[7] G. L. Stuiber, Principles of Mobile Communication, 2nd ed. Norwell,
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hardware of digital logic also does. tion: From Theory to Practice. New York: Wiley, 2009.
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VII. CONCLUSION Commun., vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 173–183, Jan. 2005.
In this paper, we address the problem of detecting primary
synchronization signal in 3GPP LTE system. Down-sampling
block, 10-bit 122.88 MHz ADC and 1-bit 122.88 MHz ADC are Chixiang Ma (S’10) received the B.S. degree in
basic components of PSS detection methods. Theoretically, de- electrical engineering from Zhejiang University,
Hangzhou, China, in 2005. He is currently pursuing
tection with 1-bit ADC and with down-sampling would degrade the Ph.D. degree from Beijing Embedded System
the performance and prolong the detection time. However, due Key Lab of Beijing University of Technology,
to the inherent advantage of the ZC sequence, our simulation re- Beijing, China.
His research interests include MIMO and OFDM
sults show that the performance of the proposed method using of wireless communication systems and VLSI
a 1-bit ADC with down-sampling by 8 does not degrade much design.
compared with that using a 10-bit ADC without down-sampling
in the presence of frequency offset under several typical LTE
propagation channels. Subsequently, two different implementa-
tion architectures of the PSS detection are presented. As the area Hao Cao received the B.S. degree in electrical and
and the power consumption of the original implementation ar- information from Huazhong University of Science
chitecture are too large to be acceptable, based on simulation and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2008. He is
currently pursuing the M.S. degree from Beijing
results and ASIC synthesis results, a more practical implemen- Embedded System Key Lab, Beijing University of
tation architecture is proposed where the PSS can be detected Technology, Beijing, China.
efficiently and accurately at a much lower power and lower cost His research interests include synchronization and
VLSI design.
which renders it feasible in the implementation of a UE chip.
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