Abstract
In this thesis, an system-on-chip (SoC) testbed integrated with 2-transmitter-antennas 2- receiver-antennas (2T2R) WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability Microwave Access) RF (Radio Frequency) module and IP (intellectual property) cores for MIMO-OFDMA (multi-input multi-output orthogonal frequency division multiple access) transceiver of IEEE802.16e standard is presented. The proposed testbed consisted of digital hardware design, ARM software design, WiMAX RF module and SoC platform. The digital hardware and ARM software design have been synthesized and verified completely. In this published, provided a complete system testbed for WiMAX communications, which integrated with WiMAX RF module and modulated by 3-wire control software to achieve wireless transmission. Moreover, designers could use an efficient strategy of platform-based design to deal with product complexity and time-to-market problems. Furthermore, SoC platform-based design minimized the unreliability of verification that extremely reduce design costs and risks. In this proposed testbed, used the figure file as the transmission data. For this reason, designers would verify and observe decoded results in different viewpoints rather than verify only in bit error rate/signal-to-noise ratio (BER/SNR) waveforms. The proposed testbed achieved complete wireless transmission system, and improved the SCO of the MIMO-OFDMA transceiver, due to integrate with SoC platform which contained various multimedia. Therefore, designers could verify the WiMAX communication system directly and observe results in real time by the liquid crystal display (LCD) panel. On the other hand, the proposed testbed integrated with the RF module, hence designers could verify communication algorithms in real environments.