DESIGN AND VERIFICATION OF

OFDM PHY
USED IN IEEE 802.11AC STANDARD

Prepared by :
Kanzariya Vipulbhai
Guided by :
Enrolment No :160280705009 Suresh Bharvad
Communication System Engineering
MOTIVATION
If the network drops below a speed of
five hundred megabits per second, the users will explode!
The plot of the movie Speed (starring Keanu
Reeves as a network administrator)

The purpose of the 802.11ac amendment is to improve the WiFi user

experience by providing significantly higher throughput for existing
application areas, and to enable new market segments for operation below
6 GHz including distribution of multiple data streams.

With data rate over 1 Gbps and several new features, throughput and
application-specific performance of 802.11ac promise to be comparable
to that of existing wired networks.
INTRODUCTION

OFDM has been widely used:

Digital video broadcasting

IEEE-802.11
IEEE-802.15
IEEE-802.16
4G cellular technology and many more.
CONCEPT OF OFDM
 IEEE 802.11AC STANDARD
802.11ac is recent evolution in WLAN.
802.11ac devices make use of OFDM
modulation
principles as 802.11n with
wider channel bandwidth
higher modulation
more stream
and enhanced MIMO techniques to increase
throughput
PROBLEM DEFINTION

FDM
FDM - Spectrally Inefficient method
multipath propagation causes massive data errors
and loss of signal in the microwave and UHF
spectrum.
IEEE 802.11n has
Comparatively narrow channel bandwidth
64 QAM modulation
80 MHz channels
 802.11ac uses 802.11n OFDM (Orthogonal
Frequency Division Multiplexing) modulation,
interleaving, and coding architecture.
Specifically, both 802.11ac and 802.11n
require device support for BPSK, QPSK,
16QAM and 64QAM modulation.
Objective
METHODOLOGY

TOP LEVEL DESIGN

CREATING LOGIC FOR

EACH BLOCK

INPUT OUTPUT
INTEGRATION OF BLOCKS

RTL DESCRIPTION OF
DESIGN IN VERRILOG/SV

VERIFICATION OF DESIGN

SIMULATION
 Workplan

Task AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR

Learning Verilog & SV

Design FFT, IFFT & other
hardware in verilog/sv
Verifying the Design

Performance analysis
Thesis writing