Live demonstration: IEEE802.11 wireless LAN system verification platform

This is a demonstration description of our verification platform for wireless LAN applications. This verification platform consists of a motherboard containing a sizable Stratix IV FPGA, a 2.4GHz/5GHz RF daughterboard, and a highly flexible MPU daughterboard. For the MAC layer, which is implemented as a software/hardware co-design, the software part is implemented in the MPU daughterboard while the hardware part is implemented in the motherboard FPGA. For the PHY layer, which consists of a digital baseband part and analog RF part, the digital part is implemented also in the motherboard FPGA while the analog part is implemented in the RF daughterboard. We demonstrate implementation results of our platform running a IEEE802.11 based wireless LAN (WLAN) System-on-Chip (SoC) design. This demonstration is associated with Digital Signal Processing (Track 4).