CommsDesign - Intel tips plans for reconfigurable radio architecture

In its first public discussion of its plans since Intel's chief technology officer Patrick Gelsinger revealed an intent to pursue reconfigurable radio at last year's Intel Developer Forum, Intel made it clear that its approach will differ from most other companies at the workshop. Rather than relying on programmable logic, Intel researcher Jeffrey Schiffer said Monday (Jan. 20) that the company's architecture will use a heterogeneous array of processors. Some will be general-purpose DSPs, and others will be tuned to process particular algorithms. Schiffer said the individual processors will be of intermediate complexity, between an FPGA and a modest CPU...