In this paper, we propose the Digital Automatic Gain Controller for IEEE 802.11a High-speed Physical Layer in the 5 GHz Band. The input gain is estimated by calculating the energy of the training symbol that is a synchronizing signal. The renewal gain...
In this paper, we propose the Digital Automatic Gain Controller for IEEE 802.11a High-speed Physical Layer in the 5 GHz Band. The input gain is estimated by calculating the energy of the training symbol that is a synchronizing signal. The renewal gain is calculated by comparing the estimated gain with the ideal gain. The renewal gain is converted into the controlled voltage for GCA to reduce or amplify the input signals. We used a piecewise-linear approximation to reduce the hardware size. The gain control is performed seven times to provide more accurate gain control. The proposed automatic gain controller is designed with VHDL and verified by using the Xilinx FPGA.