Cemil Mervan Atalay, Murat UCUNCU

Abstract: Today’s technology has begun to improve very fast and communication technology tries to adapt this positive change. Each new innovation of theoretical changes has been trying to be implemented practically. Although it is relatively easier for RF communication to adapt this change, since there are many manufactured special ICs for special tasks, it is still a challenging task for underwater communication. It is very difficult to establish a reliable link for underwater communication due to the lack of receiver designs suitable for underwater communication in the literature. Besides, it takes significant amount of time to implement such algorithms on FPGAs with HDL languages. In this paper, several successful telecommunication techniques of both RF and UWA communication are combined to construct a real time operating end to end UWA system. The proposed system is prepared on MATLAB with System Generator blocks. Therefore, it can directly be implemented on Xilinx’s FPGAs. We explained every step of the design in detail and explain the functions of individual modules used in the system. In this way, the users of the system can tune the parameters according to their system performance requirements.

Keywords: FPGA, Digital Design, Acoustic Communication, Receiver Design, System Generator

Date Published: November 24, 2022
DOI: 10.11159/jmids.2022.003

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