Actually, the article predominately discusses the use of general-purpose processors in commodity servers for the processing power, shying away from more typical software-defined radios that often include special-purpose DSPs and FPGAs. Obviously, more apt for base stations than for handhelds unless you've been eating your Wheaties.
The aim was to remove all the dedicated hardware except the RF front end and digitizer, and to make it trivial (5% of the code) to port from one platform to another. This makes time-to-market fast, but at the expense of power, space, and performance.
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Actually, the article predominately discusses the use of general-purpose processors in commodity servers for the processing power, shying away from more typical software-defined radios that often include special-purpose DSPs and FPGAs. Obviously, more apt for base stations than for handhelds unless you've been eating your Wheaties.
The aim was to remove all the dedicated hardware except the RF front end and digitizer, and to make it trivial (5% of the code) to port from one platform to another. This makes time-to-market fast, but at the expense of power, space, and performance.