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A 1024 RV-Cores Shared-L1 Cluster with High Bandwidth Memory Link for Low-Latency 6G-SDR

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing 2024-08-20 v1

Abstract

We introduce an open-source architecture for next-generation Radio-Access Network baseband processing: 1024 latency-tolerant 32-bit RISC-V cores share 4 MiB of L1 memory via an ultra-low latency interconnect (7-11 cycles), a modular Direct Memory Access engine provides an efficient link to a high bandwidth memory, such as HBM2E (98% peak bandwidth at 910GBps). The system achieves leading-edge energy efficiency at sub-ms latency in key 6G baseband processing kernels: Fast Fourier Transform (93 GOPS/W), Beamforming (125 GOPS/W), Channel Estimation (96 GOPS/W), and Linear System Inversion (61 GOPS/W), with only 9% data movement overhead.

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@article{arxiv.2408.08882,
  title  = {A 1024 RV-Cores Shared-L1 Cluster with High Bandwidth Memory Link for Low-Latency 6G-SDR},
  author = {Yichao Zhang and Marco Bertuletti and Chi Zhang and Samuel Riedel and Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli and Luca Benini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.08882},
  year   = {2024}
}