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Portions of the Turbo Code library Copyright 2000 by Matt Valenti. ii Contents Preface ..................................................................................................... xi Online VisSim/Comm documentation ............................................................................... xi Conventions used in this manual ....................................................................................... xi For VisSim/Comm Personal Edition (PE) users ............................................................... xii Technical support service ................................................................................................ xiii Introduction .............................................................................................. 1 A typical communication system ........................................................................................ 1 Lowpass equivalent systems ............................................................................................... 3 Communication blocks ....................................................................................................... 3 VisSim/Comm Overview .......................................................................... 7 Starting VisSim/Comm ....................................................................................................... 7 The VisSim/Comm environment ........................................................................................ 7 Inserting blocks .................................................................................................... 8 Connecting blocks ................................................................................................ 8 Block connectors .................................................................................................. 8 Diagram timing .................................................................................................... 9 Random numbers .................................................................................................. 9 Setting up block parameters ............................................................................... 10 Global variables .................................................................................................. 10 Choosing an integration method ......................................................................... 11 Multirate diagrams ............................................................................................................ 11 Configuring compound blocks for local rate mode ............................................ 12 Output plots ...................................................................................................................... 12 BER curves ......................................................................................................... 12 Eye plots ............................................................................................................. 13 Frequency domain plots ..................................................................................... 13 Phase scatter plots .............................................................................................. 14 Filter Viewer ..................................................................................................................... 15 Generating BER curves .................................................................................................... 16 Enabling multiple consecutive runs .................................................................... 17 Varying the SNR for each run ............................................................................ 17 Calculating BER measurements ......................................................................... 17 Sample communication simulation ................................................................................... 19 Comm Block Set ..................................................................................... 21 Channels category ............................................................................................................. 21 AWGN (Complex or Real) ................................................................................. 21 Binary Symmetric Channel ................................................................................ 22 Jakes Mobile ....................................................................................................... 23 iii Contents Mobile Fading .................................................................................................... 23 Multipath ............................................................................................................ 24 Propagation Loss ................................................................................................ 25 Rice/Rayleigh Fading ......................................................................................... 26 Rummler Multipath ............................................................................................ 26 Saleh-Valenzuela ................................................................................................ 27 TWTA (Analytical) ............................................................................................ 29 TWTA (Table Lookup) ...................................................................................... 31 Vector AWGN .................................................................................................... 31 Complex Math category ................................................................................................... 32 Complex Addition .............................................................................................. 32 Complex Conjugate ............................................................................................ 32 Complex Division .............................................................................................. 32 Complex Inverse ................................................................................................ 32 Complex Multiplication ..................................................................................... 33 Complex Power .................................................................................................. 33 Complex Square Root ........................................................................................ 33 Complex to Mag/Phase ...................................................................................... 33 Complex to Real/Imag........................................................................................ 33 Mag/Phase to Complex ...................................................................................... 34 Real/Imag to Complex........................................................................................ 34 Demodulators category ..................................................................................................... 34 Differential PSK Detector .................................................................................. 34 FM Demodulator ................................................................................................ 35 IQ Detector ......................................................................................................... 35 PPM Demodulator .............................................................................................. 36 PSK Detector ...................................................................................................... 37 QAM/PAM Detector .......................................................................................... 37 Digital category ................................................................................................................ 38 Accumulate & Dump ......................................................................................... 38 Binary Counter ................................................................................................... 39 Bits to Symbol ...................................................................................................