Demo: An RFSoC-Based Testbed for Over-the-Air Wireless Transceiver at Millimeter Wave Frequency
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| author | Tekchandani, Jeet Mangal, Jai Darak, Sumit J. Ram, Shobha Sundar |
| author_facet | Tekchandani, Jeet Mangal, Jai Darak, Sumit J. Ram, Shobha Sundar |
| contents | The millimeter wave (mmW) frequency spectrum has been explored recently for large bandwidth communication. At these frequencies, narrow directional beams are required for communication since the signal attenuation is high due to atmospheric absorption. This work presents an AMD RFSoC and Sivers Semiconductors analog front-end based hardware testbed capable of directional communication via analog beamforming at mmW. The proposed testbed comprises orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based baseband physical layer and digital front-end on an ARM processor and field programmable gate array (FPGA), respectively, integrated with high-speed data converters of the RFSoC. The RFSoC output at sub-6GHz is integrated with a mmW multi-antenna analog-front end for over- the-air communication at 29.8 GHz. We demonstrate end-to-end communication over the air and present bit error rate (BER) analysis in the presence of radio frequency impairments and beam misalignments in real radio channels. |
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| spellingShingle | Demo: An RFSoC-Based Testbed for Over-the-Air Wireless Transceiver at Millimeter Wave Frequency Tekchandani, Jeet Mangal, Jai Darak, Sumit J. Ram, Shobha Sundar Signal Processing The millimeter wave (mmW) frequency spectrum has been explored recently for large bandwidth communication. At these frequencies, narrow directional beams are required for communication since the signal attenuation is high due to atmospheric absorption. This work presents an AMD RFSoC and Sivers Semiconductors analog front-end based hardware testbed capable of directional communication via analog beamforming at mmW. The proposed testbed comprises orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based baseband physical layer and digital front-end on an ARM processor and field programmable gate array (FPGA), respectively, integrated with high-speed data converters of the RFSoC. The RFSoC output at sub-6GHz is integrated with a mmW multi-antenna analog-front end for over- the-air communication at 29.8 GHz. We demonstrate end-to-end communication over the air and present bit error rate (BER) analysis in the presence of radio frequency impairments and beam misalignments in real radio channels. |
| title | Demo: An RFSoC-Based Testbed for Over-the-Air Wireless Transceiver at Millimeter Wave Frequency |
| topic | Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07209 |