Modelling the OFDM-based PHY Layer in SoC for Visible Light Communication

Authors

  • Erwin Setiawan University Center of Excellence on Microelectronics, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
  • Trio Adiono School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
  • Syifaul Fuada Program Studi Sistem Telekomunikasi, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijes.v7i3.10695

Keywords:

AXI4-Stream, OFDM, PHY layer, SoC, Visible Light Communication

Abstract


In this paper, we report a System-on-Chip (SoC) architecture for OFDM-based Visible Light Communication (VLC). The OFDM block was implemented as VLC PHY layer. The OFDM block comprises of transmitter and receiver. In transmitter block, there are Reed-Solomon encoder, modulator, IFFT, and preamble generator. While in receiver block, there are Reed-Solomon decoder, demodulator, FFT, and synchronizer. In SoC, these blocks are designed as IP cores. The industry standard AXI4-Stream protocol was used for data exchange between IP cores. The OFDM model in SoC was verified by comparing with a MATLAB simulation.

Author Biographies

Erwin Setiawan, University Center of Excellence on Microelectronics, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia

Erwin Setiawan received the B.Eng. degree in Computer Engineering from Maranatha Christian University, Indonesia, in 2014, and the M.Sc. degree in Microelectronics Engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia, in 2018 with Cumlaude distinction. He is currently a researcher at Microelectronics Center of ITB. His main research interests are in VLSI and SoC design, embedded system, and visible light communications.

Trio Adiono, School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia

Trio Adiono received a B.Eng. in electrical engineering and an M.Eng. in microelectronics from Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia, in 1994 and 1996, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. in VLSI Design from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2002. He holds a Japanese Patent on a High-Quality Video Compression System. He is now a Full professor and a senior lecturer at the School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, and formerly serves as the Head of the Microelectronics Center, Institut Teknologi Bandung. His research interests include VLSI design, signal and image processing, VLC, smart cards, and electronics solution design and integration.

Syifaul Fuada, Program Studi Sistem Telekomunikasi, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia

Syifaul Fuada received a B.A. in Electrical Engineering Education from Universitas Negeri Malang (UM), Indonesia, and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering option Microelectronics from the School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia. He was with the University Center of Excellence at Microelectronics ITB from 2016-2018 as the principal researcher. Now, he is with the Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) as a Lecturer. He has several achievements, such as receiving one of the 106 Indonesia Innovations by BIC-RISTEK DIKTI awards (2014) for Helm Charger product, a top of 10–student travel grant to the IEEE Asia Pacific Conference and Systems (APCCAS 2016) that was held in Jeju, South Korea, receiving one of 108 Indonesia Innovations by BIC-LIPI awards (2016) for Smart Home Product, receiving Best Paper Award from IEEE IGBSG 2018 that was held in Yi-Lan, Taiwan, receiving Best Paper Award from IEEE ICTRuDev 2018 that was held in Bali, Indonesia and receiving the Best paper award from a Scopus-indexed journal, i.e. International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE). He is a member of IAENG and an associate editor of Jurnal INFOTEL (p-ISSN: 2085-3688, e-ISSN: 2460-0997). His research interests include analog circuit design and instrumentation, circuit simulation, engineering education, IoT, multimedia learning development, and Visible Light Communication.

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Published

2019-09-25

How to Cite

Setiawan, E., Adiono, T., & Fuada, S. (2019). Modelling the OFDM-based PHY Layer in SoC for Visible Light Communication. International Journal of Recent Contributions from Engineering, Science & IT (iJES), 7(3), pp. 79–89. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijes.v7i3.10695

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 3 (2019)

Section

Short Papers

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