A 1.6 Mbps digital-QAM system for DSL transmission

An all digital-QAM system is studied here for high-speed data transmission on digital subscriber loops. All elements of the system have been fully investigated and their effects on overall system performance documented. In particular, the following issues have been explicitly addressed: utility of an adaptive error-prediction (noise-prediction) filter; equalizer size and convergence; blind equalization; choice of constellation size and center frequency; combined timing/carrier recovery; and the oversampling requirements of a numerically-controlled-oscillator (NCO) for potential use in the timing and carrier recovery loop. The paper relies on simulation results to investigate and quantify the overall interactions of the various blocks. Throughout the paper emphasis has been placed on reducing the complexity of the system for implementation on an integrated circuit (IC). It is expected that the information provided here will serve as a good starting point for an IC designer to start the implementation of a transceiver ASIC