Abstract:
A communication transmission emulator digitally emulates a plurality of signal impairments created by the transmission components and communication medium in a typical communication system. A variety of linear and non-linear distortion characteristics are impressed on a baseband signal between transmit and receive modems to effect thorough testing and optimization of modem performance without requiring transmission frequency components and/or communication channel. The communication transmission emulator comprises transmission channel transmit modules, receive modules and communication media modules. Transmit and receive modules accepting or outputting analogue or digital signals. The transmission emulator is configurable to allow a simulation of a single channel communication; a simulation of a full duplex communication; a simulation of a common base station receiver with multiple users transmitting and a simulation of a base station transmitter with multiple users receiving, all configurations with or without the communication media emulator module. The communication media modules simulate multipath signal components and distortions for the chosen medium.
Abstract:
A method for emulating signal impairments to enable dynamic evaluation of transmit (12 and 14) and receive (13 and 16) modem performance through the use of computer-generated models enabling both an evaluation of system performance as well as a comparison of results (18) obtained from system designs respectively exposed to both impaired and unimpaired conditions to enable direct comparison as well as comparison with standardized measurement values to facilitate system design activities prior to any hardware implementation.
Abstract:
A method for emulating signal impairments to enable dynamic evaluation of transmit and receive modem performance through the use of computer-generated models enabling both an evaluation of system performance as well as a comparison of results obtained from system designs respectively exposed to both impaired and unimpaired conditions to enable direct comparison as well as comparison with standardized measurement values to facilitate system design activities prior to any hardware implementation.
Abstract:
A method for emulating signal impairments to enable dynamic evaluation of transmit and receive modem performance through the use of computer-generated models enabling both an evaluation of system performance as well as a comparison of results obtained from system designs respectively exposed to both impaired and unimpaired conditions to enable direct comparison as well as comparison with standardized measurement values to facilitate system design activities prior to any hardware implementation.
Abstract:
A method for emulating signal impairments to enable dynamic evaluation of transmit and receive modem performance through the use of computer-generated models enabling both an evaluation of system performance as well as a comparison of results obtained from system designs respectively exposed to both impaired and unimpaired conditions to enable direct comparison as well as comparison with standardized measurement values to facilitate system design activities prior to any hardware implementation.
Abstract:
Un emulador (31) para uso con equipos transmisor y receptor de comunicaciones en un sistema de comunicación para modelar una pluralidad de degradaciones de señal que se manifiestan en una señal de datos de comunicación entre la modulación en dicho equipo transmisor y la desmodulación en dicho equipo receptor; comprendiendo el emulador (31): una pluralidad de módulos transmisores programables (35) que emulan una pluralidad de degradaciones de señal que acontecen durante la modulación de medios de comunicación, teniendo cada módulo transmisor (35) una entrada de señal (I) para acoplamiento con un módem transmisor, una salida y un acoplamiento de bus de comunicación; una pluralidad de módulos receptores programables (37) que emulan una pluralidad de degradaciones de señal que acontecen durante la demodulación de medios de comunicación, teniendo cada módulo receptor citado (37) una entrada de señal, una salida (O) para acoplamiento con un módem receptor y un acoplamiento de bus de comunicación;un interfaz (65) de usuario que se comunica con un procesador (47) para definir una simulación de sistema comunicación acoplando mediante software un número requerido de dichos módulos transmisores (35) y receptores (37) según una disposición de simulación definida por un usuario que emplea dichas salidas de módulo transmisor y dichas entradas de módulo receptor; e instruyendo dicho procesador (47) a cada uno de dichos módulos requeridos (35, 37) a través de un bus de comunicación (53) para que use degradaciones de señal específicas de entre dicha pluralidad de degradaciones de señal respectivas para dicha disposición de simulación definida por el usuario.
Abstract:
A method for emulating signal impairments to enable dynamic evaluation of transmit and receive modem performance through the use of computer-generated models enabling both an evaluation of system performance as well as a comparison of results obtained from system designs respectively exposed to both impaired and unimpaired conditions to enable direct comparison as well as comparison with standardized measurement values to facilitate system design activities prior to any hardware implementation.