I Need Results Yesterday: Accelerating Your Wireless Communications Simulations

Overview

Modern communications systems are becoming increasingly complex, particularly with the prevalence of MIMO-OFDM systems.  These beamformed systems require ever more compute power to model and simulate, but the required times to market are shrinking, if anything.  Simulation acceleration techniques are essential.

This webinar will describe and demonstrate multiple techniques for achieving those acceleration goals.  We will discuss the all-important step of profiling code to determine where the bottlenecks are, and then will describe how you can use C code generation, GPUs, the public cloud, private clusters, and FPGAs to dramatically increase your simulation speed.

Highlights

• Techniques for profiling MATLAB code
  
• Automatic C code generation for desktop acceleration
• Using GPU objects and gpuArrays to leverage GPU cards
• Accessing CPUs in Amazon Web Services (AWS) to speed up 5G link simulations
• Generating and deploying HDL code on FPGAs when prototyping transceiver algorithms

About the Presenter

Mike McLernon is an advocate for communications and software-defined radio products at MathWorks.  Since joining MathWorks in 2001, he has overseen the development of numerous PHY layer capabilities in Communications Toolbox, and of connectivity to multiple SDR hardware platforms.  He has worked in the communications field for over 35 years, in both the satellite and wireless industries.  Mike received his BSEE from the University of Virginia and his MEEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  He is a senior member of the IEEE.