Emulation of Analog Components for the Rapid Prototyping of Wireless Baseband Systems

The increasing complexity of modern wireless basebandsystems demands the use of rapid prototyping methodologiesto provide an early estimation of system functionalityand performance. In order to achieve an efficient hardwareemulation, the complete system including the analog partshould be prototyped. In this work we present synthesizabledescriptions of a communication channel module anda sigma delta modulator, suitable for fundamental emulationof wireless baseband environments. By avoiding timeintensivehardware/software cosimulation, a great speedupof the system verification can be attained. In order to assistthe designer and speed up the design process we alsocreated an environment for automatically customizing themodules according to a specific scenario.