An FPGA Based Rapid Prototyping of the Rake Receiver in a MIMO Environment

Author

Sylvestre, Pierre-Luc ; Dahmane, Adel Omar

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Quebec Univ., Trois-Rivieres, Que.

fYear

2006

fDate

38838

Firstpage

2480

Lastpage

2483

Abstract

In communication systems, an attractive approach for economical, spectrally efficient, and high quality digital cellular and personal communication services is the use of code division multiple access (CDMA) technology with spatial diversity made possible by multiple antennas at the transmitter and the receiver (MIMO-multiple input multiple output). In order to study the feasibility of the hardware implementation, a rapid prototyping platform is realized under Mathworks´ Simulink and Xilinx´s system generator. The developed platform offers rapid evaluation of implementation performances over different simulation conditions

Keywords

MIMO communication; antenna arrays; code division multiple access; field programmable gate arrays; personal communication networks; radio receivers; CDMA technology; FPGA; MIMO communication; Mathworks Simulink; Rake receiver; Xilinx´s system generator; code division multiple access; digital cellular services; multiple antennas; multiple input multiple output; personal communication services; rapid prototyping; receiver; spatial diversity; transmitter; Environmental economics; Fading; Field programmable gate arrays; MIMO; Multiaccess communication; Multipath channels; Personal communication networks; Prototypes; Receiving antennas; Transmitting antennas; CDMA; FPGA; MIMO; Rake; Rapid prototyping; Xilinx; system Generator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006. CCECE '06. Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0038-4

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0038-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2006.277673

Filename

4054971