An ASIC Chip Design of an DFDM-based 25 Mbps Wireless ATM Moderm Using Cyclic Suffix

Cyclic Suffix를 사용한 OFDM 기반의 25 Mbps 무선 ATM 모뎀의 ASIC Chip 설계

  • 박경원 (중앙대학교 전자전기공학부) ;
  • 박세현 (중앙대학교 전자전기공학부) ;
  • 양원영 (중앙대학교 전자전기공학부) ;
  • 조용수 (중앙대학교 전자전기공학부)
  • Published : 2000.05.01

Abstract

In this paper, an efficient H/W implementation technique for guard interval in OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) systems is proposed and applied to ASIC chip design of an OFDM-based 25 Mbps wireless ATM modem. In OFDM systems, a cyclic prefix, longer than the largest multipath delay spread, is usually inserted to maintain the orthogonality of subchannels, by making the linear convolution of the channel ok like circular convolution inherent to the discreate Fourier domain, as well as to prevent the ISI(Intersymbol Interference) within the OFDM block. However, the OFDM system using the cyclic prefix requires an additional H/W in transmitter in order to store the original samples and to append the cyclic prefix to the beginning of each block. In this paper, a new approach using a cyclic prefix, even with a significantly lower H/W complexity. Finally, the performance of the proposed approach is demonstrated by applying it to ASIC chip design of an OFDM-based 25 Mbps wireless ATM modem.

본 논문에서는 OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 시스템에서 사용되는 보호구간을 하드웨어로 효율적으로 구현할 수 있는 기법을 제안하고, OFDM기반의 25 Mbps 무선 ATM 모뎀에 적용하여 ASIC칩을 설계한다. OFDM 시스템에서는 가장 긴 delay spread 보다 긴 cyclic prefix를 삽입하여 채널의 선형 컨볼루션을 이산 Fourier 영역에서 circular 컨볼루션으로 변형함으로써 부채널간의 직교성을 유지하고, OFDM 블록내의 심볼간 간섭은 방지한다. 그러나 OFDM 시스템에서 이러한 cyclic prefix를 사용하기 위해서는 원래 샘플을 저장하고 각 블록의 시작 위치에 cyclic prefix를 붙이기 위한 추가적인 하드웨어가 송신단에서 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 cyclic suffix를 사용한 새로운 기법을 제안하고, 제안된 기법이 기존의 cyclic prefix 기법에 비하여 매우 적은 하드웨어로 동일한 성능을 갖게 됨을 확인한다. 마지막으로 제안된 기법을 OFDM기반의 25 Mbps 무선 ATM 모뎀의 ASIC칩 설계에 적용하여 그 성능을 확인한다.

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