A Prototyping Environment for Hardware/Software Codesign of OFDM Systems

Abstract:

To make rapid implementation and verification for the systems becomes important in frontend Application Specific Integrated Circuits. Therefore, a field programmable gate array based hardware/software codesign prototyping environment is proposed to simulate the software implementation and verify the hardware implementation of a baseband OFDM system. The system is implemented by software and hardware partitions, respectively. The analog radio frequency front-end module helps take a full insight into the actual baseband system performance. User datagram protocol is used for data transmission between these two partitions, and hence makes a complete baseband system. With the proposed codesign environment, the software simulation is running over real wireless channels, and the hardware implemental results can be flexibly processed in real time and enhances the design efficiency.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 380-384)
• Pages: 2803-2806
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.380-384.2803
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Xu Ming Lu, Wei Jie Wen, Hong Zhou Tan
• Keywords: Baseband System, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), Prototyping Environment

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