Design and implementation of Forward Error Correction in Software Defined Radio on a Model Based Development platform

Forward Error Correction (FEC) plays an important role in today's Digital Communications Systems. This paper describes the design and implementation of the FEC, the (8,4) Block Coder and 8×8 Interleaver in a Binary Phase Shift Keying Transceiver on a Model Based Development platform for a Software Defined Radio (SDR) system. Model Based Development is a new development process where the model of the communications systems is designed and developed in software such as Simulink / Matlab. Model Based Development process saves considerable amount of time in the form of design, implementation and testing.