Abstract: With the continuous development of wireless communication technologies, communication standards and protocols are frequently updated to meet the demands for high-speed data transmission. The traditional ASIC solution can provide good performance with relatively low costs, but the long development cycle and limited programmability cannot meet a variety of wireless standards required for the upgrade. Nowadays, with both powerful computation capabilities and high-degree flexibility, multi-core DSP has become one of the mainstream solutions for wireless communication baseband processing. However, there is no benchmark available for the performance evaluation of wireless baseband processor in industry and academia. This paper aims to study the wireless baseband communication system and extract the typical applications as a benchmark set for the assessment of multi-core processors supporting wireless baseband processing. The paper also provides the parallelism and complexity analysis.

Key words: wireless baseband processing, benchmark, multi-core processor