16-QAM Transmitter and Receiver Design Based on FPGA

The FPGA technology has been playing a considerable role in portable and mobile communication. This is due to the features of flexibility, accuracy and configurability in designing and implementation. The paper presents a complete design for a 16-QAM transmitter and receiver based on the Virtex4 FPGA Kit. The implemented system can be applied in particle. Based on the principles of carrier synchronization, time synchronization, core tools for phase-different detecting as well as adaptive equalization processing in System Generator (a software of Xilinx), the authors have designed a complete baseband IF 16-QAM system, in which the baseband signal is upconverted into IF frequency (up to 12MHz) at the transmitter and then is downconverted at the receiver. After timing synchronizing, the adaptive equalizing and phase recovering, the received baseband signal is displayed in the oscilloscope’s screen. These accurate experiments conducted in Virtex 4 FPGA board kit have shown a promising foundation for developing coding, algorithms in 16-QAM modulation scheme.