A flexible FPGA-based MIMO geometric fading channel simulator for rapid prototyping

Author

Fard, Saeed Fouladi ; Alimohammad, Amirhossein ; Cockburn, Bruce ; Schlegel, Christian

Author_Institution

Ukalta Eng., Edmonton, AB, Canada

fYear

2009

fDate

9-11 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

451

Lastpage

454

Abstract

We present an FPGA-based baseband fading simulator for the fast verification of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication systems. The simulator can be reconfigured in real time to simulate different geometric MIMO channel models. When implemented on a Xilinx XC5VLX110 FPGA, our 4 Ã— 4 MIMO fading channel simulator occupies only 6.6% of the configurable slices while generating more than 16 Ã— 324 million samples per second.

Keywords

fading channels; field programmable gate arrays; FPGA-based baseband fading simulator; MIMO wireless communication system; field programmable gate arrays; flexible FPGA-based MIMO geometric fading channel simulator; geometric MIMO channel models; multiple input multiple output; multiple-input multiple-output; rapid prototyping; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Fading; Field programmable gate arrays; Light scattering; MIMO; Solid modeling; Transmitting antennas; Virtual prototyping; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Field-Programmable Technology, 2009. FPT 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4375-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4377-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FPT.2009.5377634

Filename

5377634