본 논문에서는 OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 시스템의 반송파 주파수 동기화부 구현을 위하여 Compact CORDIC 처리기를 제안한다. Compact CORDIC 처리기는 반송파 주파수 옵셋 추정 및 보상시에 요구되는 OFDM 시스템의 독특한 특성을 이용하여 제안되었으며, Compact CORDIC 전처리부와 Compact CORDIC 처리부로 구성된다. Compact CORDIC 전처리부에서는 신호의 정규화를 효율적으로 수행하며, Compact CORDIC 처리부에서는 Vector 모드 CORDIC 과 Rotation 모드 CORDIC 연산을 효율적으로 결합하여 동시에 처리하여 반송파 주파수 동기화를 수행한다. FPGA 구현을 통하여 제안된 Compact CORDIC 처리기가 기존 CORDIC 방법보다 성능이 우수하며 구현 복잡도가 크게 감소함을 확인한다.
In this letter, we propose a compact CORDIC processor for implementation of carrier frequency synchronization block in an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) system. The compact CORDIC processor is proposed by using inherenct properties of an OFDM system for estimation and compensation of carrier frequency offset, and is composed of a compact CORDIC preprocessor and a compact CORDIC processor. The compact CORDIC preprocessor plays a role of normalizing input signal efficiently, and the compact CORDIC processor is proposed to perform the vectoring mode and rotational mode jointly in CORDIC operation for carrier frequency synchronization. It is shown by FPGA implementation that the proposed compact CORDIC processor can achieve better performance with a significantly reduced hardware complexity than the conventional CORDIC approach.
