IJCATR Volume 3 Issue 10

VHDL Implementation of FPGA Based OFDM Modem for Wireless Applications

Ch. Goutham Raj G.Krishnaiah D. N. Rao
10.7753/IJCATR0310.1007
keywords : OFDM, FFT,IFFT, VHDL,FPGA

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The new mobile technologies trying to give broadband over wireless channel allowing the user to have bandwidth connectivity even inside moving vehicle. The metropolitan broadband wireless networks require a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) capability, and the scheme Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) becomes essential to overcome the effects of multipath fading. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) has become very popular, allowing high speed wireless communications. OFDM could be considered either a modulation or multiplexing technique, and its hierarchy corresponds to the physical and medium access layer. A basic OFDM modulator system consists of a QAM or PSK modulator, a serial to parallel, and an IFFT module. The iterative nature of the IFFT and its computational order makes OFDM ideal for a dedicated architecture outside or parallel to the main processor. The VHDL implementation allows the design to be extended for either FPGA or ASIC implementation, which suits more for the Software Defined Radio (SDR) design methodology. In this project the OFDM modulator and demodulator will be implemented with full digital techniques. VHDL will be used for RTL description and FPGA synthesis tools will be used for performance analysis of the proposed core. Modelsim Xilinx Edition will be used for functional simulation and verification of results. Xilinx ISE will be used for synthesis. The Xilinx’s chipscope tool will be used for verifying the results on Spartan 3E 3S500EFG320-4 FPGA.
@artical{c3102014ijcatr03101007,
Title = "VHDL Implementation of FPGA Based OFDM Modem for Wireless Applications",
Journal ="International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research(IJCATR)",
Volume = "3",
Issue ="10",
Pages ="640 - 644",
Year = "2014",
Authors ="Ch. Goutham Raj G.Krishnaiah D. N. Rao"}
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