Abstract
In this thesis, an efficient and flexible testbed integrated with intellectual property (IP) cores for multi-input multi-output orthogonal frequency division multiple access (MIMO-OFDMA) transceiver of IEEE802.16e standard is presented. The proposed testbed consist of hardware design, software design and system-on-chip (SoC) platform. The proposed testbed supports uplink/downlink system and integrates those system with SoC platform. The hardware and software design have been synthesized and verified. The proposed testbed provides a complete system design.In the begging of development, the proposed testbed is integrated with uplink system. Through changing input/output control unit and software design, the proposed testbed could apply to downlink system. It is a flexible prototyping for worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) communication system. Designers could use platform-based design approach as an effective strategy to cope with product complexity and time-to-market at all levels. Moreover, SoC design methodology will minimize verification uncertainties that greatly reduce design effort and risk. For the verification stage, designers can use the hardware/software (HW/SW) co-verification strategy to debug hardware component, which will help designers identify more faster. In this proposed testbed, which introduces the figure file to be the transmission media. Designers validate their design in bit error rate/signal-to-noise ratio (BER/SNR) waveforms traditionally. In this proposed testbed, designer could verify the decoded results in various environment by liquid crystal display (LCD) panel.