Author(s)

Rafael Masashi Fukuda, Taufik Abrão

Department of Electrical Engineering (DEEL), Londrina State University (UEL), Londrina, Brazil.

The Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system is already used in commercial applications and is capable to deal with Intersymbolic Interference (ISI) caused by multipath channels. This system gained popularity after the application of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and its inverse (IFFT) to modulate the signal in many subcarriers. This paper discusses implementation aspects of an OFDM system; such system is characterized by considering real constraints, including the memory consumption and the processing time. The OFDM modulator, channel samples and OFDM demodulator were implemented entirely in the DSP TMS320C6678 platform. As a proof-of-concept, a 256-QAM OFDM BER performance is compared with theoretical values. Moreover, the memory size is not demanding, consuming very few resources. It was observed a very high number of DSP clock cycles needed for the OFDM signal modulation, corresponding to more than 4 times the number used in demodulating the signal.

OFDM, DSP Platform, Implementation, Bit Error Rate, Signal Processing, Telecommunication Systems

Fukuda, R. and Abrão, T. (2016) OFDM System Implementation in DSP Platform TMS320C6678. Journal of Computer and Communications, 4, 26-36. doi: 10.4236/jcc.2016.411003.