Abstract
This paper presents a DSP acceleration and assessment framework targeting SDR platforms on x86 64 architectures. Driven by the potential of rapid prototyping and evaluation of breakthrough concepts that these platforms provide, our work builds upon the wellknown OpenAirInterface codebase, extending it for advanced, previously unsupported modes towards large and massive MIMO such as non-codebook-based multi-user transmissions. We then develop an acceleration/profiling framework, through which we present finegrained execution results for DSP operations. Incorporating the latest SIMD instructions, our acceleration framework achieves a unitary speedup of up to 10. Integrated into OpenAirInterface, it accelerates computationally expensive MIMO operations by up to 88% across tested modes. Besides resulting in a useful tool for the community, this work provides insight on runtime DSP complexity and the potential of modern x86 64 systems.