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Design of High Speed AWGN Communication Channel Emulator

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This paper presents a method for designing a high accuracy white gaussian noise generator suitable for communication channel emulation. The proposed solution is based on the combined use of the Box-Muller method and the central limit theorem. The resulting architecture provides a high accuracy AWGN with a low complexity architecture for a digital implementation in FPGA. The performance is studied by means of MATLAB simulations and various complexity figures are given.

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  1. Centre de recherche, LESTER, University of Bretagne Sud, BP 92116, 56321, Lorient Cedex, France

    Emmanuel Boutillon

  2. Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, ComElec, 46 rue Barrault, 75634, Paris Cedex 13, France

    Jean-Luc Danger

  3. UTIC-Ecole Supérieure des Communications, Rte de Raoued km 3.5, 2083, El Ghazala, Tunisia

    Adel Ghazel

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Boutillon, E., Danger, JL. & Ghazel, A. Design of High Speed AWGN Communication Channel Emulator. Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing 34, 133–142 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021937002981

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