Hardware Efficient Approximative Matrix Inversion for Linear Pre-Coding in Massive MIMO

Prabhu, HemanthLund University,Lunds universitet,Institutionen för elektro- och informationsteknik,Institutioner vid LTH,Lunds Tekniska Högskola,Department of Electrical and Information Technology,Departments at LTH,Faculty of Engineering, LTH (author)

This paper describes a hardware efficient linear pre-coder for Massive MIMO Base Stations (BSs) comprising a very large number of antennas, say, in the order of 100s, serving multiple users simultaneously. To avoid hardware demanding direct matrix inversions required for the Zero-Forcing (ZF) pre-coder, we use low complexity Neumann series based approximations. Furthermore, we propose a method to speed-up the convergence of the Neumann series by using tri-diagonal pre-condition matrices, which lowers the complexity even further. As a proof of concept a flexible VLSI architecture is presented with an implementation supporting matrix inversion of sizes up-to 16 × 16. In 65 nm CMOS, a throughput of 0.5M matrix inversions per sec is achieved at clock frequency of 420 MHz with a 104K gate count.

Edfors, OveLund University,Lunds universitet,Institutionen för elektro- och informationsteknik,Institutioner vid LTH,Lunds Tekniska Högskola,Department of Electrical and Information Technology,Departments at LTH,Faculty of Engineering, LTH(Swepub:lu)tde-oed (author)
Rodrigues, JoachimLund University,Lunds universitet,Institutionen för elektro- och informationsteknik,Institutioner vid LTH,Lunds Tekniska Högskola,Department of Electrical and Information Technology,Departments at LTH,Faculty of Engineering, LTH(Swepub:lu)tde-jro (author)
Liu, LiangLund University,Lunds universitet,Institutionen för elektro- och informationsteknik,Institutioner vid LTH,Lunds Tekniska Högskola,Department of Electrical and Information Technology,Departments at LTH,Faculty of Engineering, LTH(Swepub:lu)eit-lli (author)
Rusek, FredrikLund University,Lunds universitet,Institutionen för elektro- och informationsteknik,Institutioner vid LTH,Lunds Tekniska Högskola,Department of Electrical and Information Technology,Departments at LTH,Faculty of Engineering, LTH(Swepub:lu)it-fru (author)
Institutionen för elektro- och informationsteknikInstitutioner vid LTH (creator_code:org_t)

By the author/editor: Prabhu, Hemanth; Edfors, Ove; Rodrigues, Joach ...; Liu, Liang; Rusek, Fredrik

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