Implementation of OFDM Transmitter based on the IEEE 802.

16d Standard
Presented by: Altamash Janjua, Umar Chohan Supervisors: Dr. Brian L. Evans and Mr. Ian Wong Technical TA: Mr. Youngok Kim

Date: 2nd December, 2004

Why is it Important to You?

Tremendous Growth of Wireless Communications Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (WMANs) Future Projects in the Industry

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Presentation Organization

Introduction Transmitter Block Diagram IEEE 802.16d Standards Transmitter Implementation Design Testing and Validation Budget Constraints and Safety Features Future Recommendations Conclusion

Signals and Modulation

x( t )

Continuous-time and Discrete-time signals

Modulation : Carrier Amplitude and/or Frequency

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What Is Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)?

Multi-carrier Amplitude modulation scheme Each Carriers amplitude is modulated Well-suited for Wireless Communication
Amplitude

Frequency
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How OFDM works?

Parallel Data Streams Data Encoding is based on Amplitude Modulation Multiple Carriers are combined through the Fourier Series Computed by Inverse Fast Fourier transform
4-QAM modulation

Our Simple Transmitter Block Diagram

Serial Data Source

Serial To Parallel

Encoding Bank

IFFT

Parallel To Serial

Cyclic Prefix

Channel

Transmitter based on the IEEE 802.16d Standard

Upcoming Standard for Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (WMANs) Specifications Used 256 FFT 56 guard carriers 16- QAM Pilots and Guards

Transmitter Implementation

National Instruments Lab VIEW FPGA VHDL and Lab VIEW programming One Main Virtual Instrument (VI) 16-QAM Encoding Bank 256 point Complex IFFT core developed by Xilinx Inc. Cyclic Prefix Module

Testing and Validation

Individual Modules Tested through Software Simulations Developing a Host PC VI for the Testing of final Hardware

Sample test results provided in the IEEE 802.16d Standard

Safety Precautions

Fundamental Canon of Engineering: Hold Paramount Public Health and Safety Repeated Design Testing for Functional Verification and Robustness Additional Indicators for Warnings
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Budget Constraints

No Purchases Involved

Hardware and Software Provided by Supervisors Time-Consuming

Currently testing the design
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Future Transmitter Implementations

Conventional Field Programmable Gate Arrays Digital Signal Processors Application Specific Integrated Circuits

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Acknowledgements

Supervisors: Dr. Brian L. Evans Mr. Ian Wong Technical Teacher Assistant: Mr. Youngok Kim

Conclusion
Thank You!!

Questions??

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