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A Reconfigurable Prototyping Platform for Modern Communication Systems

Authors:
Alexander Viessmann
Christian Kocks
Christoph Spiegel
Guido H. Bruck
Peter Jung

Keywords: Keywords-DSP (Digital Signal Processor), Digital Video Broadcasting, DVB-T2, FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), LDPC (Low-Density Parity-Check) Codes, Prototyping Platform, Software-Defined Radio

Abstract:
The increasing number of upcoming communication systems make a reconfigurable platform concept inevitable. A strict modular, software-defined radio based concept allows to interchange several components in hardware as well as in software without affecting the residual parts of the platform in order to adapt the underlying system to various modern communication systems. In this paper, the authors describe a reconfigurable prototyping platform developed and successfully tested at the Department of Communication Technologies at University of Duisburg-Essen strictly following this softwaredefined radio paradigm. Using the example of the upcoming terrestrial broadcasting standard, namely DVB-T2, the necessity of a hybrid platform concept is discussed, comprising of a digital signal processor on the one hand and field-programmable gate arrays on the other hand.

Pages: 102 to 106

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: March 20, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4030

ISBN: 978-1-61208-123-6

Location: St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles

Dates: from March 20, 2011 to March 25, 2011