FPGA implementation for channel estimations based on Wiener LMS for DS-CDMA

The estimation of channel delays along with their respective complex channel coefficients of different users constitutes the first stage in the detection process at the receiving base station in a DS-CDMA communication system. A multiuser steepest Wiener LMS (MS-WLMS) like structure algorithm along with smoothing/prediction filters to improve tracking quality is suggested. This paper presents a customized and fixed-point hardware parallel implementation of the proposed algorithm for WCDMA uplink transmission in third generation (3G) wireless system. Additional speedup in the execution time is achieved over the well known maximum likelihood channel estimation for DS-CDMA. It is also shown that our solution could achieve the real-time requirements of 3GPP standards applied in WCDMA systems.