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Design and Implementation of Software Defined Radio Based IEEE 802.11ac Encoder Using Multicore DSP

멀티코어 DSP를 사용한 SDR 기반 IEEE 802.11ac 인코더의 설계 및 구현

  • 장중봉 (한양대학교 전자컴퓨터통신공학과) ;
  • 안흥섭 (한양대학교 전자컴퓨터통신공학과) ;
  • 최승원 (한양대학교 전자컴퓨터통신공학과)
  • Received : 2019.11.13
  • Accepted : 2019.12.17
  • Published : 2019.12.30
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Abstract

This paper presents a software design and implementation of software-defined radio based IEEE 802.11ac encoder using Texas Instruments TMS320C6670 digital signal processor (DSP) platform. In this paper, the implemented encoder has the capability of generating all the signals consisting of preamble field and data field under different modulation & coding scheme in the IEEE 802.11ac standard. Moreover, the flexibility in choosing different rate, bandwidth, or mode can also be achieved by software reconfiguration using the DSP. As a result, by utilizing the computing power provided by multi-cores as well as the FFT coprocessors in the DSP, the required maximum throughput 78Mbps can be fully reached within 4 ㎲ for each OFDM symbol in the case of 20MHz bandwidth of IEEE 802.11ac.

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