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Digital Complex Correlator for a C-band Polarimetry survey
The international Galactic Emission Mapping project aims to map and
characterize the polarization field of the Milky Way. In Portugal it will
cartograph the C-band sky polarized emission of the Northern Hemisphere and
provide templates for map calibration and foreground control of microwave space
probes like ESA Planck Surveyor mission. The receiver system is equipped with a
novel receiver with a full digital back-end using an Altera Field Programmable
Gate Array, having a very favorable cost/performance relation. This new digital
backend comprises a base-band complex cross-correlator outputting the four
Stokes parameters of the incoming polarized radiation. In this document we
describe the design and implementation of the complex correlator using COTS
components and a processing FPGA, detailing the method applied in the several
algorithm stages and suitable for large sky area surveys.Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures; submitted to Experimental Astronomy, Springe
Partially reconfigurable TVWS transceiver for use in UK and US markets
With more and more countries opening up sections of unlicensed spectrum for use by TV White Space (TVWS) devices, the prospect of building a device capable of operating in more than one world region is appealing. The difficulty is that the locations of TVWS bands within the radio spectrum are not globally harmonised. With this problem in mind, the purpose of this paper is to present a TVWS transceiver design which is capable of being reconfigured to operate in both the UK and US spectrum. We present three different configurations: one covering the UK TVWS spectrum and the remaining two covering the various locations of the US TVWS bands
Symbol Synchronization for SDR Using a Polyphase Filterbank Based on an FPGA
This paper is devoted to the proposal of a highly efficient symbol synchronization subsystem for Software Defined Radio. The proposed feedback phase-locked loop timing synchronizer is suitable for parallel implementation on an FPGA. The polyphase FIR filter simultaneously performs matched-filtering and arbitrary interpolation between acquired samples. Determination of the proper sampling instant is achieved by selecting a suitable polyphase filterbank using a derived index. This index is determined based on the output either the Zero-Crossing or Gardner Timing Error Detector. The paper will extensively focus on simulation of the proposed synchronization system. On the basis of this simulation, a complete, fully pipelined VHDL description model is created. This model is composed of a fully parallel polyphase filterbank based on distributed arithmetic, timing error detector and interpolation control block. Finally, RTL synthesis on an Altera Cyclone IV FPGA is presented and resource utilization in comparison with a conventional model is analyzed
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