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Academic Journal of Computing & Information Science, 2023, 6(5); doi: 10.25236/AJCIS.2023.060506.

FPGA Implementation of a WHT-OFDM Modem

Author(s)

Zhizheng Gao, Zhiling Tang, Zhou Jiang, Li Xu

Corresponding Author:
Zhizheng Gao
Affiliation(s)

School of Information and Communication, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, Guangxi, China

Abstract

OFDM is one of the most widely used multi-carrier modulation technologies in wireless communication. However, in the case of high mobility, the orthogonality between sub-carriers is destroyed due to the existence of time selective fading, and the performance of OFDM system is greatly affected. In order to reduce this effect, the data can be pre-coding before OFDM modulation. The pre-coding technique adopted in this paper is Walsh-Hadamard transform (WHT). The data are distributed evenly on all sub-carriers by WHT operation, which avoids the problem of data loss caused by some sub-carriers which can’t be recovered. In this paper, the design scheme of WHT-OFDM system is first proposed, then the modulation and demodulation module of the system is designed using the Verilog HDL language, and then the simulation verification of the design is completed. The results proved that the designed WHT-OFDM system can be successfully implemented on FPGA.

Keywords

OFDM; High mobility; Wireless communication; WHT; FPGA

Cite This Paper

Zhizheng Gao, Zhiling Tang, Zhou Jiang, Li Xu. FPGA Implementation of a WHT-OFDM Modem. Academic Journal of Computing & Information Science (2023), Vol. 6, Issue 5: 39-48. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJCIS.2023.060506.

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