Digital Beamforming Implementation on an FPGA Platform

This work is part of UPC contribution to the CORPA (Cost-Optimised high Performance Active Receive Phase Array antenna for mobile terminals) project of ESA (European Space Agency) The objective of the work presented is to implement a Digital Beamforming (DBF) platform for an antenna array receiver designed for the S-DMB system. Our project deals with the design of antenna arrays from a hardware point of view, in contrast to other theo- retic studies regarding DBF algorithms. Hence, we will study practical aspects of DBF implementation such as signal quantization and required computational resources.