Implementation of Transmitter and Receiver Architecture for Physical Hybrid Indicator Channel of LTE-Advanced Using Partial Reconfiguration in ML605 Virtex-6 Device

LTE-A (Long Term Evolution-Advanced) is the fourth generation technology to increase the speed of wireless data network. The LTE-A Physical layer provides both data and control information between an enhanced base station and mobile user equipment which is quite complex and consists of a mixture of technologies. Since there is requirement for more resources to accommodate all the channels in a single FPGA, Partial Reconfiguration (PR) technique is introduced to configure the total hardware into sub modules that configure and operate in different instants of time. PR enables a part of FPGA to be reconfigured, while the rest continues to function without any interruptions and reduces the hardware resource power and fabric area. This work proposes the realization of transmitter and receiver architecture of Physical Hybrid Indicator Channel (PHICH) channel for LTE-A using partial reconfiguration on xc6vlx240tff1156-1 FPGA. The receiver architecture for PHICH is to report the correct reception of uplink user data to the User Equipment (UE) in the form of Acknowledgment (ACK), or Negative ACK (NACK) in a 1 millisecond duration sub-frame of Long Term Evolution (LTE) System. The modules for the different diversities are reconfigured based on the control signals from the transmitter.