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Design of an Efficient Coarse Frequency Estimator Using a Serial Correlator for DVB-S2  

Yun, Hyoung-Jin (아주대학교 정보통신대학 전자공학부 SoC 연구실)
SunWoo, Myung-Hoon (아주대학교 정보통신대학 전자공학부 SoC 연구실)
Abstract
This paper proposes an efficient coarse frequency synchronizer for digital video broadcasting - second generation (DVB-S2). The input signal requirement of acquisition range for coarse frequency estimator in the DVB-S2 is around ${\pm}1.5625Mhz$, which corresponds to 6.25% of the symbol rate at 25Mbaud. At the process of analyzing the robust algorithm among data-aided approaches, we find that the Luise & Reggiannini (L&R) algorithm is the most promising one for coarse frequency estimation with respect to estimation performance and complexity. However, it requires many multipliers and adders to compute output values of correlators. We propose an efficient architecture identifying the serial correlator with the buffer and multiplexers. The proposed coarse frequency synchronizer can reduce the hardware complexity about 92% of the direct implementation. The proposed architecture has been implemented and verified on the Xilinx Virtex II FPGA.
Keywords
DVB-S2; Frequency Offset; Synchronizer; Correlator; SoC;
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