Design of an efficient CORDIC-based architecture for synchronization in OFDM

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 774-782

  Granado, Joaquin ^a   Torralba, Antonio ^a   Chávez, Jorge ^a   Baena Lecuyer, Vicente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

(CORDIC) Coordinate Rotation Digital Computer; Frequency synchronization; Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM); Time synchronization

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYNCHRONIZATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COORDINATE ROTATION DIGITAL COMPUTER (CORDIC); FREQUENCY SYNCHRONIZATION; TIME SYNCHRONIZATION;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750104012     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2006.1706469     Document Type: Article

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