• DocumentCode
    3035152
  • Title

    A Simple Hardware Structure for SNR Estimation

  • Author

    Kim, Sooyoung ; Park, Eunwoo ; Yeo, Sungmoon ; Lee, Jong Yeol ; Ahn, Doseob

  • Author_Institution
    Division of Electronics & Information Eng., Chonbuk National University, 664-14 Duckjin-dong, Jeonju 561-756 KOREA. sookim@chonbuk.ac.kr
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    29-31 Oct. 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we present an efficient hardware structure to estimate signal to noise ratio (SNR) for M-ary amplitude and phase modulation schemes at the receiver. The proposed hardware structure requires a counter and two comparators with a predetermined look up table (LUT). For an estimation error of less than 1 dB, it needs just about a few hundred samples. We can design the LUTs with theoretically derived values and tailor them for special purposes. We demonstrate a few simulation results of the estimation algorithm, and present hardware implementation results.
  • Keywords
    Amplitude estimation; Binary phase shift keying; Estimation error; Hardware; Phase estimation; Phase modulation; Phase shift keying; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Signal to noise ratio; Table lookup;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Military Communications Conference, 2007. MILCOM 2007. IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Orlando, FL, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1513-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1513-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MILCOM.2007.4454800
  • Filename
    4454800