A VLSI Architecture for Novel Decision Feedback Differential Phase Detection with an Accumulator

  • Kim, Chang-Kon (CAD&C.C. Laboratory, Department of Electronic Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Chong, Jong-Wha (CAD&C.C. Laboratory, Department of Electronic Engineering, Hanyang University)
  • Received : 2001.02.02
  • Published : 2002.04.30

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel decision feedback differential phase detection (DF-DPD) for M-ary DPSK. A conventional differential phase detection method for M-ary Differential Phase Shift Keying (DPSK) can simplify the receiver architecture. However, it possesses a poorer bit error rate (BER) performance than coherent detection because of the prior noisy phase sample. Multiple-symbol differential detection methods, such as maximum likelihood differential phase detection, Viterbi-DPD, and DF-DPD using L-1 previous detected symbols, have attempted to improve BER performance. As the detection length, L, increases, the BER performance of the DF-DPD improves but the complexity of the architecture increases dramatically. This paper proposes a simplified DF-DPD architecture replacing the conventional delay and additional architecture with an accumulator. The proposed architecture also improves BER performance by minimizing the current differential phase noise through the accumulation of previous differential phase noise samples. The simulation results show that the BER performance of the proposed architecture approaches that of a coherent detection with differential decoding.

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