The necessity of high data rates wireless communication becomes important for the end-user, especially to support high mobility lifestyle "always get connected", and demand for the multimedia communication, such as the video phone, live streaming, online gaming, and the Internet. Since wireless communication systems need to deal with multiband and multimode operations on complex signals many-a-times, the efficient phase and magnitude extraction is always needed. This paper presents an architecture for the efficient rectangular to polar conversion (RPC) for these multiband and multimode wireless communications using fully parallel CORDIC, a Linear Convergence Algorithm. The architecture was synthesized with ISE 10.1 software and was implemented in a Xilinx FPGA device achieving better performance than the previous LUT-based approaches.
General TermsCurrent wireless communication systems require a multiband/multi-standard approach, so that several communication standards can be incorporated in one device to satisfy the users who expect mobility, ubiquitous connection and high data rates at the same time. Instead of including an independent architecture for each standard, universal transmitter architecture capable of generating all the different standards waveforms seems to be the best solution. Also the rapid evolution of the communication systems has created new demands on multimode systems that support various modulation formats such as Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) for 3G system, and Orthogonal Frequency Data Multiplex Modulation (OFDM) for 4G and DVB-T/H systems. An efficient rectangular to polar conversion is required so that transmitters must accommodate constant envelop signals as well as non-constant envelop signals to achieve multimode and multiband operations.