5th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

An SoC evaluation platform for dual link MIMO-OFDMA communications

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/chinacom.2010.73,
        author={Yu-Jen Wu and Jung-Mao Lin and Hsin-Yi Yu and Szu-Chi Liu and Hsi-Pin Ma},
        title={An SoC evaluation platform for dual link MIMO-OFDMA communications},
        proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2011},
        month={1},
        keywords={Field programmable gate arrays Hardware MIMO Receivers System-on-a-chip Transceivers Transmitters},
        doi={10.4108/chinacom.2010.73}
    }
    
  • Yu-Jen Wu
    Jung-Mao Lin
    Hsin-Yi Yu
    Szu-Chi Liu
    Hsi-Pin Ma
    Year: 2011
    An SoC evaluation platform for dual link MIMO-OFDMA communications
    CHINACOM
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/chinacom.2010.73
Yu-Jen Wu1,*, Jung-Mao Lin1,*, Hsin-Yi Yu1,*, Szu-Chi Liu1,*, Hsi-Pin Ma1,*
  • 1: Department of Electrical Engineering National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.
*Contact email: yzwu@larc.ee.nthu.edu.tw, jmlin@larc.ee.nthu.edu.tw, hyyu@larc.ee.nthu.edu.tw, scliu@larc.ee.nthu.edu.tw, hp@ee.nthu.edu.tw

Abstract

In this paper, an efficient and flexible SoC platform integrated with intellectual property (IP) cores for multiinput multi-output orthogonal frequency division multiple access (MIMO-OFDMA) transceiver of IEEE802.16e-2005 standard is presented. The proposed platform supports uplink/downlink and is integrated with the evaluation system. The hardware and software design have been synthesized and verified. The proposed platform provides a complete system design. It is a flexible prototyping for worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) communication system. Designers could use platform-based design approach as an effective strategy to cope with product complexity and time-to-market at all levels. For the verification stage, designers can use the hardware/software (HW/SW) co-verification strategy to debug hardware component, which will help designers identify more faster. In this proposed platform, which introduces the figure file to be the transmission media. Designers validate their design in bit error rate/signal-to-noise ratio (BER/SNR) waveforms traditionally. In this proposed platform, designer could verify the decoded results in various environment by LCD panel.