Design of Simplified Coherent QPSK Modem for Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum

Satoru ISHII
Atsushi HOSHIKUKI
Ryuji KOHNO

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E84-A    No.12    pp.2966-2975
Publication Date: 2001/12/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications)
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Keyword: 
spread spectrum,  symbol synchronization,  coherent demodulation,  carrier extraction,  digital PLL,  

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Summary: 
PSK coherent demodulation has difficulty in achieving high speed carrier extraction and symbol synchronization when implementing to slow FH-SS radio system. On the other hand, implementation to FPGA has the requirement of a small gate size to design because of FPGA cost issue. We developed a QPSK coherent demodulation digital modem for FH-SS radio systems using FPGA by solving problems. The designed modem performs symbol synchronization with no carrier extractions, under the limitation of the small gate size requirement. The modem employs shift arithmetic operation and a comb digital BPF to achieve very good synchronization lock-up performance with small gate size. In this paper, the symbol synchronization and the carrier tracking scheme are mainly discussed. Analysis of its performance and stability are also explained. The achievement of its very good performance is presented by experimental measurement.