Abstract. An important tool for the construction of framelets on local fields of positive characteristic using unitary extension principle was presented by Shah and Debnath [Tight wavelet frames on local fields, Analysis, 33 (2013), [293][294][295][296][297][298][299][300][301][302][303][304][305][306][307]. In this article, we continue the study of framelets on local fields and present a polyphase matrix characterization of framelets generated by the extension principle.