Hardware Co-Simulation of the BPSK and QPSK Systems on FPGA

The application of FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Array) became an important issue in designing electronic systems. Also, the flexibility and performance offered by reconfigurable computing shorts the development time required for implementing digital signal processing solutions using FPGAs. In this paper, we present original hardware designs of the BPSK and QPSK systems, using Matlab/Simulink environment, System Generator and Xilinx ISE, in order to verify the functionality of the systems in hardware which speeds up the simulations. The capabilities of the Spartan 3E board are also compared with previous reported results.