Reconfigurable Bit Error Rate Measurement for Wireless Systems

The work presents a test environment for the testing of wireless communication system using baseband signals. The baseband signals are subjected to fading channels and noise channels. The distorted signal is then compared with the original transmitted signal. The comparison between the two signals gives the error rate in the transmitted bits. FPGA is used to create a repeatable test environment for single-antenna and multiple-antenna systems. The major aim is to reduce the simulation time of the testing process which is software based by implementing a hardware based simulation. The work aims at implementing the fading variate generator and Additive White Gaussian noise (AWGN) generators and also aims at the generation of source samples using CTG258 generator.