• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.39 no.10
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• pp.11-20
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• 2002

This paper proposes a hardware/software codesign of the MLSE equalizer for GSM.GPRS systems. We analyze algorithms of the MLSE equalizer which consists of a channel estimator using the correlation method and the Viterbi processor. We estimate the computational complexity requirement based on the simulation of TI TMS320C5x DSP. We also estimate the gate count from the results of logic synthesis using the samsung 0.5㎛ standard cell library (STD80). Based on the results of the complexity estimation and gate count, we propose the efficient software/hardware codesign of the MLSE equalizer based on the results of the complexity estimation and gate count.