This is a very simple circuit, it consists in two LSFR register lineary connecated in an specific way in order to generate two m-sequences, in order to generate this pair of m-sequences, we input an initial vaule called seed, this is because we cannot generate a PN signal if the LSFR registers have an initial value of 0s. For this design we used two LSFR with 5 D Flip-Flops. With this we can generate a PN signal with a length of(2^5)-1. With this PN signal and modulus 2 adding the signal we want to tranmit, we generate a CDMA signal, which we are going to study simulating a channel with an OPAM in order to add noise to the CDMA and feed it back to the designed circuit to see the bit-error rate of this device. With this we hope to study and put to test.
As we used a hardware description language (Verilog), we created an specific testbench for the cdma.v, this testbench simply initializes the input signals to 0 in order to generate the adequate signal such as the clock, a test signal to send that lasts 31 clock cycles (Spread-spectrum), a seed value to load both LSFR The stimulus simple will assign a value to set_i and deactivate it to load the seed, after that, the LSFR have a linear feedback and will contantly generate the Gold signal each clock cycle. With the test signal_i we the system will generate the CDMA signal and assign it to CDMA_o, the Gold signal is assigned to Gold_o, this is the tranmition process.
For the reception process, we simply assign the value of CDMA_o to receptor_i and the output will be observerd at receptor_o, we can observe that we recovered signal_i as it shows the same time diagram as receptor_o.
As for the LED_o it works as a simple indicator that the inputed seed is valid for transmission.
The template will include the verilog file with its testbench.
OPAM, Testboard, LED
| # | Input | Output | Bidirectional |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | signal_i | cdma_o | |
| 1 | seed_i[0] | gold_o | |
| 2 | seed_i[1] | receptor_o | |
| 3 | seed_i[2] | led_o | |
| 4 | seed_i[3] | ||
| 5 | seed_i[4] | ||
| 6 | receptor_i | ||
| 7 | load_i |