A Reconfigurable Digital Platform for the Real-Time Emulation of Copper Access Networks

Author

Van Renterghem, Koen ; Pletinckx, Jo ; Vandewege, Jan ; Temmerman, Serge

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Gent

Volume

3

fYear

2005

fDate

16-19 May 2005

Firstpage

1906

Lastpage

1911

Abstract

In this paper, a reconfigurable platform for the real-time digital emulation of copper access networks is presented. The instrument, using hard real-time DSP techniques on Xilinx Virtex II FPGAs, is capable of accurately reproducing the physical layer of a xDSL connection. The magnitude and absolute phase of the insertion and return loss of the twisted pair access loop consisting of cables with various characteristics and length is digitally emulated over the full VDSL bandwidth. The innovative character of the digital approach over conventional loop emulation techniques is demonstrated and its performance is assessed using several test cases

Keywords

digital instrumentation; digital signal processing chips; digital subscriber lines; field programmable gate arrays; reconfigurable architectures; VDSL bandwidth; Xilinx Virtex II FPGA; conventional loop emulation; copper access networks; real time DSP techniques; real-time digital emulation; reconfigurable digital platform; xDSL connection; Bandwidth; Cables; Copper; Digital signal processing; Emulation; Field programmable gate arrays; Insertion loss; Instruments; Physical layer; Testing; DSP; Emulation; FPGA; Physical Layer; Real-time; VDSL; xDSL;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2005. IMTC 2005. Proceedings of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8879-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604503

Filename

1604503