Reconfigurable Design of Rectangular to Polar Converter using Linear Convergence

Abstract

In recent years, the growth of multimedia services and applications in digital data transmission has led to ever increasing demands of effective data transmission over the wired as well as wireless communication systems. Since digital communication systems need to deal with multimode and multiband operations on complex signals many-a-times, there is always a requirement of an efficient method for rapid phase and magnitude extraction. The proposed Rectangular to Polar Converter (RPC) has been implemented using fully parallel CORDIC, a Linear Convergence Algorithm, in vectoring mode. The design is synthesized with ISE 10.1 software, and implemented on 2v3000fg676-4. Synthesis results show that the design is able to work at 177.620 MHz with less hardware requirements. General Terms A rectangular to polar conversion is required so that transmitters must accommodate constant envelop signals as well as non-constant envelop signals to achieve multimode and multiband operations. In burst-mode communication systems, a rapid carrier is crucial. Hence a fast rectangular-topolar conversion is needed. Delay-matching of phase as well as amplitude is crucial so that the restoration of the transmitted data at the receiver may be not be imperfect if the delays are unmatched.