A Spatial Array for Spectrally Agile Wireless Processing

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Main Authors: Rasteh, Ali, Hennessee, Andrew, Shivhare, Ishaan, Garg, Siddharth, Rangan, Sundeep, Reagen, Brandon
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Published: 2025
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author Rasteh, Ali
Hennessee, Andrew
Shivhare, Ishaan
Garg, Siddharth
Rangan, Sundeep
Reagen, Brandon
author_facet Rasteh, Ali
Hennessee, Andrew
Shivhare, Ishaan
Garg, Siddharth
Rangan, Sundeep
Reagen, Brandon
contents Massive MIMO is a cornerstone of next-generation wireless communication, offering significant gains in capacity, reliability, and energy efficiency. However, to meet emerging demands such as high-frequency operation, wide bandwidths, co-existence, integrated sensing, and resilience to dynamic interference, future systems must exhibit both scalability and spectral agility. These requirements place increasing pressure on the underlying processing hardware to be both efficient and reconfigurable. This paper proposes a custom-designed spatial array architecture that serves as a reconfigurable, general-purpose core optimized for a class of wireless kernels that commonly arise in diverse communications and sensing tasks. The proposed spatial array is evaluated against specialized cores for each kernel using High-Level Synthesis (HLS). Both the reconfigurable and specialized designs are synthesized in a 32 nm process to assess latency, throughput, area, and power in realistic processes. The results identify conditions under which general-purpose systolic architectures can approach the efficiency of specialized cores, thereby paving the way toward more scalable and agile systems.
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spellingShingle A Spatial Array for Spectrally Agile Wireless Processing
Rasteh, Ali
Hennessee, Andrew
Shivhare, Ishaan
Garg, Siddharth
Rangan, Sundeep
Reagen, Brandon
Signal Processing
Hardware Architecture
Massive MIMO is a cornerstone of next-generation wireless communication, offering significant gains in capacity, reliability, and energy efficiency. However, to meet emerging demands such as high-frequency operation, wide bandwidths, co-existence, integrated sensing, and resilience to dynamic interference, future systems must exhibit both scalability and spectral agility. These requirements place increasing pressure on the underlying processing hardware to be both efficient and reconfigurable. This paper proposes a custom-designed spatial array architecture that serves as a reconfigurable, general-purpose core optimized for a class of wireless kernels that commonly arise in diverse communications and sensing tasks. The proposed spatial array is evaluated against specialized cores for each kernel using High-Level Synthesis (HLS). Both the reconfigurable and specialized designs are synthesized in a 32 nm process to assess latency, throughput, area, and power in realistic processes. The results identify conditions under which general-purpose systolic architectures can approach the efficiency of specialized cores, thereby paving the way toward more scalable and agile systems.
title A Spatial Array for Spectrally Agile Wireless Processing
topic Signal Processing
Hardware Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04182