Weibull and Suzuki fading channel generator design to reduce hardware resources

A novel and efficient method for emulating a Weibull fading channel is presented. The proposed Weibull fading channel generator employs CORDIC technology which can work without the need for a multiplier, a scarce FPGA resource when emulating wireless channels. Using the proposed hardware implementation structure, the resource consumption is effectively reduced. Further, the proposed generator is able to produce the Weibull fading channel with arbitrary values of the shape parameter γ, in contrast to existing state-of-the-art methods, which can only generate Weibull channels with fixed values of γ. In simulation, the PDF of the Weibull fading channel agrees closely with the theoretical values. The simulation results also show the effectiveness of the proposed structure to generate Lognormal and Suzuki fading channels.