A 46 Gbps 12 pJ/b Sparsity-Adaptive Beamspace Equalizer for mmWave Massive MIMO in 22FDX
<|reference_start|>A 46 Gbps 12 pJ/b Sparsity-Adaptive Beamspace Equalizer for mmWave Massive MIMO in 22FDX: We present a GlobalFoundries 22FDX FD-SOI application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) of a beamspace equalizer for millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The ASIC implements a recently-proposed power-saving technique called sparsity-adaptive equalization (SPADE). SPADE exploits the inherent sparsity of mmWave channels in the beamspace domain to reduce the dynamic power of matrix-vector products by skipping multiplications for which the magnitude of both operands are below pre-defined thresholds. Simulations with realistic mmWave channels show that SPADE incurs less than 0.7dB SNR degradation at 1% target bit error rate compared to antenna-domain equalization. ASIC measurement results demonstrate an equalization throughput of 46Gbps and show that SPADE offers up to 38% power savings compared to antenna-domain equalization. A comparison with state-of-the-art massive MIMO equalizer designs reveals that our ASIC achieves superior normalized energy efficiency.<|reference_end|>
@article{mirfarshbafan2024a,
    title={A 46 Gbps 12 pJ/b Sparsity-Adaptive Beamspace Equalizer for mmWave
  Massive MIMO in 22FDX},
    author={Seyed Hadi Mirfarshbafan and Christoph Studer},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.06755},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.06755},
    primaryClass={cs.AR}
}