Efficient FPGA Design Flow Based QAM Modulator Using System Generator and MATLAB

Abstract

This study presents, efficient FPGA Virtex-5 design flow based QAMmodulator using System Generator from Xilinx and MATLAB frommathworks. To allow all digital communication systems for easy adoptedwith more complicated coding and modulation techniques, the SoftwareRadio (SR) mode has to be used which is extremely in meeting theincreasing demands of the wireless communication and mobile industry.However, in this study, the shortest and efficient paths to design an FPGAusing MATLAB, Xilinx System Generator, ModelSim, synplify Pro and ISE(Integrated Software Environments ) software tools is introduced. Thefloating point design in MATLAB has been moved to fixed point valuesusing the most attractive and friendly Xilinx DSP system generatorsoftware a model based approach associated with assistance softwarefrom Mathworks and Synplicity. Result obtained shows an importantutilization in Look Up Table (LUT) and Slices in FPGA Virtex-5 design.This demonstrates the ability of less power consumption.