A wireless LAN demodulator in a Pamette: design and experience

Author

McDermott, Tom ; Ryan, Paul ; Shand, Mark ; Skellern, David ; Percival, Terry ; Weste, Neil

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Macquarie Univ., North Ryde, NSW, Australia

fYear

1997

fDate

16-18 Apr 1997

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

45

Abstract

We have implemented the digital section of a wireless local area network (WLAN) demodulator in a reconfigurable interface card called the PCI Pamette. The entire baseband section of the demodulator has been implemented using the Pamette and a simple analog to digital mezzanine board. This is the second version of the demodulator, the first being a card-based design using a mixture of discrete and reconfigurable logic. The Pamette design took far less time to complete than the card-based one. Moreover, the reconfigurable substrate is much more versatile. We describe the Pamette implementation and discuss our experiences with the two different design styles and technologies

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; communication complexity; demodulators; field programmable gate arrays; reconfigurable architectures; wireless LAN; PCI Pamette; analog to digital mezzanine board; baseband section; card-based design; complexity; discrete logic; field programmable gate arrays; reconfigurable interface card; reconfigurable logic; wireless LAN demodulator; wireless local area network; Communication industry; Demodulation; Electronics industry; Hardware; Industrial electronics; Physics; Prototypes; Radio frequency; Software prototyping; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 1997. Proceedings., The 5th Annual IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Napa Valley, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8159-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FPGA.1997.624603

Filename

624603